The Pale Horse by Agatha Christie

eazybee, Thank you for the info. I will give this one a miss.

Sara Phelps is now bracketed with Andrew Davies as being a warning signal that any book eiter of them dramatise will bear only a passing resemblance to the original.

her(SP) script is 'what I think the story is about from her (AC) point of view. No, Agatha Christie wrote a book with characters and plot as she saw them. Much as I enjoy reading Agatha Christie, they are not books of any intellectual depth. She wrote a good straightforward story and you got what it said on the tin.

You would think they would find it depressing that the only way they are capable of dramatising a book and holding an audience is by adding extraneous sex and traducing the character of half the characters.

I've got the book on my Kindle. I will reread tthat instead.

I'll give it a try. I'm a great fan of Agatha Christie but like some adaptations more than others.

Yes thanks. Something to look forward to!

Thank you, OP.

I'm sort of looking forward to this because I love the book, but I'm afraid it will be the usual "reimagining"

According to the Daily Telegraph, The Pale Horse is 'loosely based on Christie's 1961 novel'; the main character is no longer the hero but a liar and womaniser; the author Sarah Phelps has 'taken liberties and changed loads and loads of stuff'. She previously upset viewers by drawing parallels between Brexit and Thirties fascism and adding sex and foul language to some of her 'adaptations', because apparently Christie laid clues to these darker elements in her writing and her script is 'what I think the story is about from her point of view.
You have been warned. ( I hope she wasn't the one who produced that dreadful one with the moustache masquerading as Hercule Poirot.)

Monica, I don't know. It is possible they have changed it. I have liked some of the different adaptations. Crooked House was very good.

Wasn’t keen on the ITV version a few years ago with either Geraldine McEwan or Julia McKenzie, can’t recall which one. But no one matches Joan Hickson, the definitive Miss Marple IMHO.

How close is it to the book? Have they 'modernised' it for what they see as a mentally challenged audience who cannot cope with something set in the 1950s?

Oh thanks, I’ll enjoy that .

I saw that on the One Show in the week looks interesting.