How well do you know the person next to you? It's fascinating. It’s a narrative model that’s behind pretty much all ‘ Slasher’ films for example somebody among us is a lunatic but we all look pretty normal. "It’s a terrifying book and basically spawns a whole style of entertainment – this house in the woods where people start dying. The good thing is Mathew Prichard (Agatha Christie’s grandson) said when the first drafts came in ‘She’d have liked this’ – so that’s alright! It’s all about remembering that there’s this fierce intelligence behind the books and it all comes from a singular imagination.” I can’t, otherwise I’m adapting someone else’s version and what’s the point in that? At the heart of the book is the author so sometimes you think that might not be true to the letter of the novel, but it is true to the spirit. "I never knew that! I know people who devoutly watch pre-existing films and TV versions before they do their adaptations, but I don’t touch it with a bargepole.
#AND THEN THERE WERE NONE BOOK TV#
It felt brutal and thrilling because of it."Īnd Then There Were None has never been made for British TV until now. There is someone in charge, and that person is malign. In this book that doesn’t happen – no one is going to come to save you, absolutely nobody is coming to help or rescue or interpret. Somebody is going to be brought into the light as being a perpetrator of a crime someone is going to be brought to justice. Within the Marple and Poirot stories somebody is there to unravel the mystery, and that gives you a sense of safety and security, of predicting what is going to happen next. Published in 1939, And Then There Were None is a mystery novel by Agatha Christie, best-selling novelist of all time, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. It felt like it really told you something about that particular period, that fissure of time that I found so remorseless.
She continues: "They are all products of the First World War – barely 20 years beforehand – on the edge of the world, as in fact Europe is also.
Within all the objects are the means of their own deaths, murders.” "Ten strangers on this island which is completely cut off by the sea – they can see the mainland but can’t reach it, they can’t see any signs of human civilisation and it feels like the end of the world in this house that is so luxurious but actually corrupt and decadent.
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