After a number of years of Netflix making films that really feel an terrible lot like Agatha Christie mysteries (Knives Out, its sequel Glass Onion, and the forthcoming Wake Up Useless Man), the streamer has lastly determined to only go straight to the supply. Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials, a three-part adaptation of novel The Seven Dials Thriller, is slated to premiere in January and would be the service’s first foray into the form of status whodunnit collection that BBC, ITV, and BritBox have made a staple of their common lineups in recent times.
Seven Dials is certainly one of Christie’s lesser-known works, and one which doesn’t function her extra recognizable (and in style) sleuths like Hercule Poirot or Miss Marple. As a substitute, it’s certainly one of her Superintendent Battle books, and in case you don’t acknowledge that identify, it’s as a result of most diversifications of these works are inclined to edit him out of the story in favor of a youthful or extra standalone form of hero. (Womp womp.) Right here, Battle not solely will get to stay round, he’ll be performed by Sherlock fan favourite Martin Freeman, and can type an unlikely investigative duo with the youthful Girl Eileen “Bundle” Brent, a fizzy Brilliant Younger Factor with an inquisitive spirit who’ll be performed by Tips on how to Have Intercourse’s Mia McKenna-Bruce.
The collection hails from former Physician Who showrunner Chris Chibnall in his first TV mission since leaving the TARDIS behind. However lest we overlook, Chibnall can be the creator of Broadchurch, a collection that—in its first season a minimum of—is indisputably the most effective crime dramas of all time. So I believe we are able to all agree he has greater than confirmed his chops in terms of telling densely plotted and wildly twisty mysteries, and appears a pure match if Netflix is certainly making an attempt to make a brand new Christieverse take off.
The story is ready in Twenties England, at a lavish home get together the place a sensible joke involving eight alarm clocks—certainly one of which mysteriously disappears—goes horribly flawed. As so typically occurs in this stuff, somebody turns up lifeless, and Girl Eileen is decided to suss out whodunnit, however the solutions she discovers could properly change her life without end. (Battle, it appears shall be extra of a supporting determine in her seek for the reality, and I can’t say that any of us are going to be significantly unhappy about that.)
