The BBC and BritBox Worldwide have secured A-list expertise for his or her newest Agatha Christie adaptation.
Oscar-winner Anjelica Huston has been forged in In direction of Zero, probably the highest-profile actor to look in a BBC Christie sequence since John Malkovich performed Poirot in 2018’s The ABC Murders.
Huston will play the aunt of lead character Nevile Unusual (Oliver Jackson-Cohen). After a scandalous superstar divorce, the British tennis star and his ex-wife Audrey (Ella Lily Hyland) make the unthinkable determination to spend a summer season collectively at Gull’s Level, their childhood residence and the coastal property of Nevile’s aunt, Woman Tressilian (Huston).
Revealed by Deadline a number of months again, the sequence will star Jackie Clune (Motherland), Grace Doherty (Name the Midwife), Jack Farthing (Rain Canines), Khalil Gharbia (Mary & George), Adam Hugill (Sherwood), Mimi Keene (Intercourse Schooling), Clarke Peters (The Wire), Emmy winner Matthew Rhys (The People) and Oliver Award-winner Anjana Vasan (Black Mirror: Demon 79). Cameras are rolling in Bristol and Devon.
“I’ve lengthy been a fan of Agatha Christie and the murder-mystery style and all the time love the chance to movie in England,” stated Huston. “I’m thrilled to be working with director Sam Yates and this glorious forged, and excited to play the intelligent and dignified Camilla, Woman Tressilian.”
Huston, who received an Oscar for 1985’s Prizzi’s Honor, most lately starred because the narrator in Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch and can seem in John Wick spinoff Ballerina.
In direction of Zero follows final 12 months’s Homicide is Simple and is considered one of a brand new technology of Christie diversifications that aren’t being penned by Sarah Phelps for the BBC and BritBox. Rachel Bennette (NW) is behind this one, with Sam Yates (Magpie) directing and Mammoth Display producing with Agatha Christie Restricted.
Fifth Season will deal with world distribution. Producer is Rebecca Durbin. Govt producers are James Prichard for Agatha Christie Restricted, Sheena Bucktowonsing and Damien Timmer for Mammoth Display, Danielle Scott-Haughton for the BBC and Jon Farrar, Stephen Nye and Robert Schildhouse for BritBox Worldwide.