A new movie about Agatha Christie‘s real-life disappearance is building a strong cast. Ryan McParland, Alfie Allen, Ben Hardy, and Stacy Martin have joined Vincent Cassel and Felicity Jones in ‘Eleven Missing Days’. Filming starts this week in the United Kingdom.
The movie tells the true story of what happened in December 1926. At the height of her fame, Agatha Christie vanished from her home. The case made front-page news around the world. Even today, no one knows exactly what happened during those eleven days.
Cast Members Join the Mystery Thriller
Felicity Jones plays Agatha Christie herself. Vincent Cassel stars as a retired Belgian police detective. His character helps search for Christie. The role sounds very similar to Christie’s famous detective Hercule Poirot.
Ryan McParland, known for FX‘s ‘Say Nothing’ and Paramount+‘s ‘Halo’, will play William Kenward. Kenward works for the Surrey Constabulary and joins the search for Christie.
Alfie Allen, famous for playing Theon Greyjoy on ‘Game of Thrones’, takes on an unnamed role in the film. Ben Hardy, who appeared in ‘The Conjuring: Last Rites’, also joins the cast. Stacy Martin, seen in ‘The Brutalist’, is part of the movie too.
Oliver Trevena from ‘Plane’ and ‘The Bricklayer’ plays Monty, Agatha Christie’s brother. Nicole Elizabeth Berger from ‘He’s Watching You’ also stars in the film.
The Real Story Behind Eleven Missing Days
The movie comes from the book ‘Agatha Christie and the Eleven Missing Days’ by Christie scholar Jared Cade. The official synopsis says: “In December 1926, at the height of her fame, Agatha Christie became front-page news when she vanished in bizarre circumstances from her home. In a case of life imitating art, this whodunnit explores the investigation behind her disappearance, strangely resembling an Agatha Christie novel itself where everyone in her life became a suspect.”
The real disappearance happened on December 3, 1926. Christie’s husband, Archie Christie, had asked for a divorce. He wanted to marry another woman. That night, Agatha left their home in Sunningdale, England. The next morning, workers found her abandoned car near a chalk quarry in Surrey. Her clothes and an expired driver’s license were left inside.
The search for Christie became a huge news story. Even Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, got involved in the search. Politicians and newspapers across the world followed the case closely.
Christie turned up 11 days later at a spa hotel in Harrogate. She had registered under a fake name. To this day, no one knows for sure what really happened. Some people think she lost her memory because of a car crash. Others believe she entered a “fugue state” caused by depression or emotional pain.
Movie Production and Release Plans
Bertie Ellwood from ‘Silo’ is directing the movie. Ernesto Foronda, who wrote ‘Better Luck Tomorrow’, created the screenplay. The film is a noir mystery-thriller that mixes real events with the feeling of an Agatha Christie novel.
Several production companies are backing the movie. Serena Films, Animus Films, Green Light Pictures, Fortitude International, Peachtree Media Partners, and Object & Animal are all producing.
Fortitude International is handling worldwide sales. Range Select represents the United States rights. The movie is expected to shoot in the UK through the summer.
This is not the first time Hollywood has looked at Christie’s disappearance. The 1979 movie ‘Agatha’ starred Vanessa Redgrave as Christie, with Dustin Hoffman and Timothy Dalton. That film offered a fictional version of what might have happened during the missing days.
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About Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie remains the best-selling fiction writer of all time. Her books have sold over two billion copies. She created famous characters like Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. Her novel ‘The Murder of Roger Ackroyd’ came out in 1926, the same year she disappeared.
Christie lived until 1976 and wrote 66 detective novels. She never fully explained what happened during those eleven missing days.
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