Agatha Christie wrote 66 novels throughout her career, and not all were Bangers. For every classic as "Orient Murder Express" - who has Got countless film adaptations over the years - There is a book like "Halowen Party", which was only adapted recently in 2023Over 50 years after the date of publication (and with different title, no less). There were even some of Christie's novels that didn't get a movie adaptation at all, like its 1935 -based mystery "Death in the Clouds", which was once given to TV miniser treatment.

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At the bottom of the list of most Christie fans are four books on her who have never received adaptation of any kind, be it like a movie, a TV show, a radio game or a graphic novel. Her 1944 book "Death comes as an end", her 1954 book "Destination Unknown", her book "Traveler in Frankfurt" since 1970, and her book "Poster of Fate" of 1973, all were ignored by the entertainment industry. So what was wrong with them?

For "Unknown Destination" and "Traveler to Frankfurt", one explanation for their lack of adaptations is that they were moving away from the usual format of mystery, Christie was known. Although it is difficult to blame Christie of trying a new genre always and over again, critics at the time (and critics today) generally agree that detective fiction is its strong lawsuit. Spy novels were not.

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Of these two books, the previous "unknown destination" had a stronger critical answer. "It's a thriller, proving that the author is really improving with age," At that time he wrote a critic. "It is told by the whole known skill of Christie and there is everything, from mass cremation to leper colonies and plastic surgery." The book was published by a serial, chapter published first for the British magazine Johnon Bull, and then in the Chicago Tribune in the United States Although the General Consensus of the Book remained positive, praise died as the story began, and some of its reversals.

The Frankfurt traveler, released much later in Christie's career, received much more mixed reviews. "Miss Christie shows a disturbing failure to tie some of the loose ends in her narrative," Wrote a criticAlthough they added: "For all this, the book fascinates, and the reader carries the pure intensity of prose." Christie was 80 when she was announced, and the general consensus was that her best years of writing were long behind her.

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"Death comes as an end" was both a detective story and a historical novel of fiction and in his time received strong critical recognition. Even today, it is still well -loved among Hardcore Christie fans, making it even more beautiful that there has never been an adaptation. The BBC was In conversations to adapt to TV minisers in 2019But the project never took off.

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Fans have been speculating about the lack of adaptation for this book, and the main theory is that the entertainment industry hesitated because the characters are all Egyptian. The cast will be filled with people with color, strictly departing from white, European roles of most Christie's works. The other problem for Hollywood was the costs associated with the recording of a period of Egypt, as well as the lack of the book of already known characters such as Poor or Miss Marpl.

The "postter of fate", meanwhile, was Christie's last novel before her death. Even more than the "passenger to Frankfurt", the drop -down quality of the prose and the plot here is attributed to its old age. "I wish I could report that the" poster of fate "is one of its better efforts, but the truth is that she lacks drama, movement and mystification. Maybe the Old Lady is having fun, ” Noticed a critic. There is no mystery here why a "stubborn of fate" has never received adaptation; The faithful would not be worth looking at.

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Although it makes sense that books like the "passenger to Frankfurt" or "postter of fate" are not at the top of the lists of any studio, I would claim to have a great recent adaptation of Christie that makes a strong case in their favor. That adaptation was "persecuting in Venice", the adaptation of Kenneth Branag in 2023 to Halowen's Party. Bringing Tina Jay and Michelle Joch for a frightening mystery in the post-second World War, this film was easily the best of the three films of a defense ever made. Thinke Thinks that the adaptation of "Orient of Orient Express killing" in 2017 would be a better film, but not: "Exhibiting in Venice" was when screenwriter Michael Green concluded and gave us really trapped, emotionally rich mystery.

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The reason why this film was so good is that its source of material was not. "Hallowe'en Party" is ranked low on the list of Christie's fans' favorite novels, thanks to his characters with paper characters, his anti-climactic resolution and his repetitive, clumsy social comment. This was a book so weak that few fans would complain about any adaptive changes that could withdraw film screenwriters, which means that "Stunning in Venice" was allowed to change pretty much everything. Setting up, tone, themes, motivations for the killer, order of death ... Even if you have read the book ahead of time, the film has a tone of surprises in the store.

This is a benefit of adapting to one of Christie's smaller novels: the screenwriters give them complete freedom to take whatever he worked for the book and not neglect everything he doesn't. They will be allowed to go crazy and throw additional twists in the story in a way that simply cannot with another adaptation of "And then there was no one"Or" killing of Orient Express. "These four books may be old at the moment, but they offer Hollywood a chance to give viewers something new.

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