

So I think I just realized that maybe that’s what this graphic novel allowed me to do, is keep my format, my very strict, strict format of these contained small movies, and yet I could do the biggest version of my movies. While we included the most-rated Agatha Christie adaptations on this list, it doesn’t mean these are all of the best Agatha Christie movies to ever be produced. Well, look, I found a graphic novel that allowed me to tell a generational story and still be contained and be in a small movie. “You would think that would rule out a generational story where I can go over many decades and tell a story. “I’ve been making movies this way since The Visit : very contained movies that I fund,” the writer-director explains.

Chatting with Den of Geek just ahead of the film’s cinema release, Shyamalan explains that his new priorities when it comes to moviemaking are to focus on contained stories. It’s a fascinating and bleak premise inspired by the graphic novel Sandcastle by Frederik Peeters and Pierre Oscar Lévy, which doesn’t exactly sound like it’s in the mold of the queen of detective fiction, Agatha Christie.īut watching the movie, the similarities start to show through. Whenever I'm in need of visual comfort and nourishment, especially on a dark and dreary day, I make a pot of tea and melt into one, or two, of these movies. The star of dozens of Christies most famous mystery novels, Hercule Poirot, he of the little grey. This rating is for all seasons of 'Agatha Christie's (Miss) Marple', and for the different actresses portraying her. Night Shyalaman’s latest, Old, sees a group of families at a luxury resort taken to a special beach which makes them age incredibly rapidly, to the point that their lives play out in entirety over hardly more than a day. Agatha Christies Poirot: The Movie Collection, Set 5. While based on certain facts this is a mythical version of the events.
