An avid Agatha Christie fan, Bobby Cuenca anticipates the latest interpretation of Death on the Nile, coming to cinema screens soon
Word was that a new film version of Death on the Nile was coming out in December. But Disney has delayed its release due to a resurgence of the pandemic. I’ve always enjoyed Agatha Christie’s detective novels and her two beloved characters, Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. I look forward to every filmed version of the books and I’m not the only one. One hundred years after the publication of her first novel, Christie’s books are bestsellers to this day and their film versions have a bad habit of being hits.
And why not? The films are always set in exotic locations (which hark back to Christie accompanying her archaeologist husband on all his digs) with elegantly dressed beautiful people doing elegant beautiful things, including murder. 1972’s Murder On The Orient Express starred Albert Finney as Poirot, Ingrid Bergman, Anthony Perkins, Lauren Bacall, Richard Widmark, Sean Connery, Jacqueline Bisset, John Gielgud, Vanessa Redgrave and Michael York. The setting is on a legendary Orient Express train snow bound and stranded somewhere in Croatia. Christie based this novel on the infamous Lindbergh kidnapping and improves on reality by conjuring up a theatrical but satisfying punishment that the real perpetrators should have suffered.