Miramax TV announces a limited series based on a novel about famed mystery novelist Agatha Christie’s real-life disappearance. The novel, which is to be published in February 2022, is titled The Christie Affair and is written by Nina de Gramont. Christie is best known for her prolific career writing 66 detective novels, many of which have been adapted into films, including Murder On The Orient Express and Death On The Nile. The novel covers a span of eleven days in 1926 when Christie mysteriously vanishes and is told through a fictitious version of her husband’s real-life mistress.
Prior to the novel's official release, Miramax has gained the rights to the story and plans to adapt the novel to a limited series, according to Deadline. Juliette Towhidi (Testament of Youth, Calendar Girls) has been tapped to write the adaption. In association with Miramax, The Gotham Group’s Ellen Goldsmith-Vein (The Maze Runner franchise), DJ Goldberg (Masters of Doom, The Spiderwick Chronicles), and Rich Green are to produce. No further production information is available.
The acquisition of The Christie Affair is part of Miramax’s interest in creating content for an international audience. Marc Helwig, the Head of Worldwide Television for Miramax TV, says Gramont’s story ‘is reminiscent of one of Christie’s enigmatic works,’ which brings Christie to the forefront of her own genre. Other new series to be produced by Miramax follow the novel adaptation trend prominent in filmmaking at the moment, which includes The English Patient, another novel-to-series adaptation, and an adaptation of Jim Cartwright’s play The Rise and Fall of Little Voices.
Source: Deadline