EXCLUSIVE: Iconic Poirot actor David Suchet will replicate a world expedition crime author Agatha Christie took within the Nineteen Twenties in a five-part doc sequence.
In Travels with Agatha with Sir David Suchet, the actor will replicate Poirot creator Christie’s journey, which spanned former British Empire territories Canada, Hawaii, South Africa, New Zealand and Australia as a part of a commerce mission. Every episode will characteristic one of many 5 international locations. Filming will start this summer season, with supply scheduled for the tip of the 12 months.
Ian Lamarra’s Soho Studios Leisure and Alan Clements’ Two Rivers Media are making the present, with Abacus Media Rights dealing with worldwide distribution. Channel 4 within the UK, BritBox in North America and the Nordics, and SBS in Australia are already on board. Lamarra and Clements are government producing and Catherine Abbott is sequence producer.
Stage and display screen actor Suchet performed Belgian super-sleuth Poirot for almost 25 years on UK community ITV. Over that point, he grew to become synonymous with the character and one of many world’s main Christie authorities. Christie stays the world’s best-selling creator of all time, with greater than two billion books offered worldwide. Her works proceed to be a robust supply for TV materials — simply final week it was revealed Anjelica Huston is among the many stars of the most recent BBC and BritBox drama adaptation of her work, the upcoming In direction of Zero.
“This sequence invitations the viewer to journey with David on a captivating journey to find extra about one of many world’s literary enigmas,” mentioned Jonathan Ford, Managing Director of Amcomri Leisure-owned Abacus. “Immersing himself within the international locations as they’re now, David will discover places she visited and find out about folks she met that finally featured in or impressed her work.”
“Having spent 1 / 4 of a century personifying Agatha Christie’s iconic character of Hercule Poirot, I now really feel so honoured to embark upon a journey world wide, as myself — within the footsteps of presumably the best crime author of all occasions,” mentioned Suchet. “I really feel that she shall be sitting on my shoulders at each second urging me on to share her ardour for data, journey, archeology, and naturally, thriller.”
“David Suchet’s data of, and fervour for, Agatha Christie, each as an creator and as an individual, is unrivalled,” added Lamarra, the previous Alaska TV and Zodiak exec whose Soho Studios landed funding from WME in February. “There is no such thing as a higher individual to embark on this pilgrimage to the creator. This shall be a luxurious sequence, premium in its content material and look, with enormous worldwide attraction.”
Clements, Managing Director of Barbie: Uncovered maker Two Rivers, mentioned the present “goes to be an actual deal with for Agatha Christie followers all world wide,” and added the doc sequence “underlines our ambitions within the worldwide market.”