Stories by @ostep925

A Pocket Full of Rye

TV movie starring Imelda Staunton as Miss Marple.

Ordeal by Innocence (2023)

TV miniseries, bringing the 1958 noir thriller into the present day. Thoughtful, stylish and dark.

Murder on the Orient Express (2010)

TBC

Verdict (1959)

What if Alfred Hitchcock directed a movie of Christie’s psychologically thrilling play?

Lord Edgware Dies (1936)

MGM movie made at the height of Hollywood’s Golden Age, and featuring one of the most glamorous casts of any Christie adaptation.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Film of the classic novel.

And Then There Were None (2001)

What if Agatha Christie’s famous thriller was adapted into a feature film in the early 2000s? Read on…….

Towards Zero

Thrilling, tense and dark. Agatha Christie’s underrated novel from 1944, brought into present day but with the same terrifying themes as the novel.

Les Liaisons Dangereuses

Based on the play by Christopher Hampton, and the novel by Choderlos de Laclos

Evil Under the Sun

Third movie in the Branagh-Poirot franchise.

Death Comes as the End

It is Egypt, 2000 BC, where death gives meaning to life. At the foot of a cliff lies the broken, twisted body of Nofret, concubine to a Ka-priest. Young, beautiful and venomous, most agree that she deserved to die like a snake. Yet Renisenb, the priest’s daughter, believes that the woman’s death was not fate, but murder. Increasingly, she becomes convinced that the source of evil lurks within her own father’s household.

Crooked House

A detective discovers that the prime suspect in the poisoning of a wealthy businessman is none other than his former lover while investigating the case. Set in present day; sinister and ghoulish. It's not just the house that's crooked.

And Then There Were None (2022)

A new feature film version - artistically designed and thoughtfully composed.

King Lear

In a dystopian future, Britain teeters on the brink of an inhumane war. Lear, the Supreme Leader of the Nation, decides he is too old and must retire. He plans to divide his kingdom between his three offspring: avaricious Goneril, sly Regan, and gentle Cordelia. When the elderly King turns his back on his loving youngest daughter, he marks his downfall. What follows is a brutal tale of human cruelty, senseless ingratitude, disintegration and chaos, and shines a spotlight on the frailty of the human condition. GENDER-BLIND.

Scrooge

Remake of 1951 movie.