Agatha Christie’s only novels do not get any kind of adaptation

Agatha Christie 66 wrote a novel throughout her career, and not all of her desire. For every classic like “Murder on the Orient Express” – which has Countless amendments to movies over the years received There is a book like “Hallowe’en Party”, which was It was recently adapted in 2023More than 50 years after the date of its publication (and with a different address, no less). There are even some Christie’s novels that have never received adaptation at all, such as her mystery “Death in Clouds” on board the 1935 plane, which only gave TV series treatment.

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At the bottom of the list of most Christie’s fans, there are four books of their salary that have never received adaptation of any kind, whether it is such as a movie, TV show, radio play or graphical novel. Her book “Death Comes Comes Com The End”, “Her book is unknown in 1954”, “Book”, “Passenger to Frankfurt” of 1970, and her book “Postern of Fate” of 1973, was all ignored by the entertainment industry. So, what is wrong with them?

For “unknown destination” and “passengers to Frankfurt”, one of the interpretations of their lack of modifications is that they moved away from the usual ambiguity that Christie was known. Although one cannot blame Christie for trying a new type from time to time, critics at that time (and critics today) generally agree that the detective imagination was its strong innovation. Spy novels were not.

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Among these two books, the previous “unknown destination” was a stronger critical response. “It is an exciting movie, which proves that the author really improves with age,” One of the critics wrote at that time. “It is said with all the familiar skill of Christie, and there is everything from burning mass bodies to Lieber colonies and plastic surgery.” The book was published in a serial manner, issued at the same time for the British magazine John Paul, then in Chicago Tribune in the United States, although the general consensus on the book remained positive, the praise was slightly faded with the continuation of the story, and some of its final fluctuations that tense readers.

“Rapid to Frankfurt”, later published in the Christie profession, received much mixed reviews. “Miss Christie has an annoying failure to link some loose parties to her novel,” One of the critics wroteAlthough they added, “Despite all of this, the book fascinates, and the reader is implemented by the massive momentum of prose.” Christie was 80 years old at the time he was published, and the general consensus was that her best writing years were behind her.

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“Death in the end” was the story of a laboratory and a historical fictional novel, and she got a strong monitoring of its time. Even today, he is still loved among the hard -line Christie fans, making it more strange that there was no adaptation. BBC was In talks to make the miniseries adaptation in 2019But the project was never launched.

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Fans fans about the lack of adaptation to this book, and the main theory is that the entertainment industry was hesitant because all characters are Egyptian. Actors will fill with colored people, a flagrant exit from the white European actors for most of Christie’s works. The other issue of Hollywood was the costs associated with photographing a piece in Egypt, as well as the book’s lack of already famous characters such as Poirot or Miss Marvel.

“Postern of Fate”, and at the same time, Christie’s recent novel was before her death. More than “passengers to Frankfurt”, the quality of prose and plot here is largely due to old age. “I hope I can report that” Postern of Fate “was one of her best efforts, but the fact is that she lacks drama, movement and mystery. The old lady may slow down,” Note one of the critics. There is no puzzle here why “Poster of Fate” did not get adaptation; Believers will not be worth watching.

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Although it makes sense to have books like “Passenger to Frankfurt” or “Postern of Fate” is not at the top of the lists of any Exec Studio, I claim that there is a great adaptation in Christie recently that makes a strong issue in their favor. This adaptation was “painful in the Venice”, which is the 2023 Kenneth Branch air conditioning of “Hallow’en Party”. When bringing Tina Fey and Michelle Yeh for a nervous puzzle in Venice after World War II, this film was easily better than the three Poirot films made by Branagh until now. You believed that the 2017 Branagh Air Conditioner for “Murder on the Origin Express” would be the best movie, but no: “A Haunting in Penice” was when the Michael Green scriptwriter was imprisoned and gave us the emotional emotional Poirot puzzle.

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The reason that this movie was very good is that the source material was not. “Hallowe’en Party” was ranked in the favorite list of Christie Favor, thanks to the group of characters of the characters, their anti -climate solution, and their frequent social suspension. This was so weak that a few fans would complain “Distinguished in Venice” allowed to change everything to a large extent. Preparation, tone, topics, murderer’s motives, death arrangement … even if you have read the book early, the movie has a lot of surprises in the store.

This is the benefit of adapting one of Christie’s less novels: it gives the script book complete freedom to take anything that works around the book and ignore everything he did. They are allowed to go crazy and throw additional transformations in the story in a way that they cannot simply with another adaptation to “Then there was nothingOr “killing on Orient Express. “These four books may be old at this stage, but they provide Hollywood an opportunity to give viewers a new thing.

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