How To Have Intercourse star Mia McKenna-Bruce will lead a brand new Agatha Christie adaptation from Netflix titled The Seven Dials Thriller.
Alongside Helena Bonham Carter and Martin Freeman, McKenna-Bruce, who additionally starred in Persuasion, will play Bundle, who’s described as a “younger, decided sleuth” within the sequence.
Penned by Broadchurch creator and former Physician Who showrunner Chris Chibnall, The Seven Dials Thriller is government produced by The Crown‘s Suzanne Mackie by way of her firm Orchid Photos and Chris Sussman (Good Omens). Chris Sweeney (The Vacationer, Again to Life) directs.
At a lavish nation home celebration in 1925, a sensible joke seems to have gone horribly, murderously incorrect. Bundle units out to unravel a chilling plot that can change her life.
McKenna-Bruce stated: “Chris Chibnall’s scripts are good, and I’m thrilled to be a part of this new interpretation of the enduring Agatha Christie’s storytelling.”
The Seven Dials Thriller is the primary sequence to enter manufacturing with Orchid Photos and can start filming this summer time.
It’s not the one Christie undertaking within the works. On Wednesday, it was introduced that Anjelica Huston and Oliver Jackson-Cohen will lead an adaptation of her novel In the direction of Zero by the BBC and Britbox Worldwide.
The three-part sequence additionally stars Ella Lily Hyland (5 and a Half Love Tales in an House in Vilnius, Lithuania), Huston (Prizzi’s Honor, The Addams Household) and Mimi Keene (Intercourse Training). Sam Yates (Magpie) is directing, and filming is now underway in and round Bristol and on the Devon coast.