The first trailer for the upcoming adaptation of Agatha Christie's three-part crime drama
The ABC Murders, starring
Harry Potter actor Rupert Grint, was released by BBC One this week. The miniseries will debut the day after Christmas, on December 26, in the UK.
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This Christmas, the next instalment in the collection of Agatha Christie stories adapted for the BBC is The ABC Murders. Bafta-nominated writer Sarah Phelps returns to explore the 20th Century through Christie’s work in this adaptation of the classic 1936 title.
John Malkovich leads the cast as Hercule Poirot alongside Rupert Grint as Inspector Crome, Andrew Buchan as Franklin Clarke, Eamon Farren as Cust, Tara Fitzgerald as Lady Hermione Clarke, Shirley Henderson as Rose Marbury, Jack Farthing as Donald Fraser, Bronwyn James in the role of Megan and Freya Mavor as Thora Grey.
It’s 1933 and a killer travels the length and breadth of Britain via the railway network. The killer uses the alias ABC, and strikes in a methodical pattern, leaving a copy of the ABC railway guide at the scene of each of murder. As Poirot attempts to investigate he is thwarted on every front. If he is to match his most cunning nemesis, everything about him will be called into question: his authority, his integrity, his identity.
Fans of the Ron Weasley actor will be pleased to hear that he has also been cast in Apple's upcoming psychological thriller series from famed director M. Night Shyamalan (
The Sixth Sense,
Unbreakable,
Split). Details on that are below, though no start of production has been announced.
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The plot of the series has not been revealed, but we hear it follows parents Dorothy (Ambrose) and Sean Turner, who have hired young nanny Leanne to help care for their newborn child. Grint will play Julian Pearce, Dorothy’s (Lauren Ambrose) younger brother.