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Starring with her will be Jonah Hauer-King ( World on Fire, Little Women ). Lyndsey Marshal will play the lead role of crime writer Agatha Christie in the new drama commissioned by Channel 5 and made by Endemol Shine’s DSP. This Agatha journeyed east on the Orient Express, which doubtless inspired another idea, and ultimately decided to publish her passionate prose under the pen name Mary Westmacott, under which Christie really did release romantic novels. Filming begins on Channel 5 drama Agatha and the Curse of Ishtar. The narrative nodded to her novels Murder in Mesopotamia and They Came to Baghdad. Such anachronisms were offset by plentiful playful references to Christie’s life and works. The script’s swearing and more racy scenes - notably the Carry On-style antics of a sexually voracious ex-pat couple and Christie initiating congress in the catacombs (what would Miss Marple say?) - felt gratuitously crowbarred in to spice things up for contemporary audiences. This fictionalised tale played fast and loose with history. He must have a face that says retro romance and a body that suits breeches. Marshall made a hugely likeable Christie and had sparky, screwball-style chemistry with Hauer-King, who is carving out a niche as the dashing but kind-hearted hero of period romps after similar roles in Howards End, Little Women and World On Fire. Agatha impulsively decided to escape to Iraq to join an archaeological dig - where, naturally, she soon found herself unravelling a string of murders.
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This frothy, flapper-flavoured film began in winter 1928, with our heroine (a feisty yet superbly sensitive portrayal by Lyndsey Marshal) bruised by her divorce, struggling with new-found fame and contemplating swapping detective novels for romances - much to the horror of her publishers.
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The Blitz-set Agatha and the Death of X arrives in 2020, while Agatha and the Truth of Murder was the station’s top-rated show last Christmas and has already sold to 139 territories. Stream Agatha and the Curse of Ishtar, watch trailers, see the cast, and more at TV Guide. Without the rights to Christie’s own works, Channel 5 are pumping out a lucrative little production line of these fictionalised biographical dramas by writer Tom Dalton. Screen versions have also become synonymous with the holiday period, ideally suited to family viewing with a tin of Quality Street passed from lap to lap.Īgatha and the Curse of Ishtar (Channel 5) wasn’t an adaptation of one of her books - which frankly would have been preferable - but found Christie herself as the protagonist of a fresh feature-length mystery. Despite only rarely using seasonal settings in her stories, “A Christie for Christmas” was the name given to her tradition of publishing a new novel each December for much of her career. The Queen of Crime isn’t far behind Dickens as the most festive of authors.