Cast announced for Christie's Crooked House

Julie Andrews, Gemma Arterton, Matthew Goode and Gabriel Byrne will star in director Neil LaBute's adaptation of Agatha Christie's "Crooked House," with screenplay by Julian Fellowes and Tim Rose.

Book description: In the sprawling, half-timbered mansion in the affluent suburb of Swinly Dean, Aristide Leonides lies dead from barbiturate poisoning. An accident? Not likely. In fact, suspicion has already fallen on his luscious widow, a cunning beauty fifty years his junior, set to inherit a sizeable fortune, and rumored to be carrying on with a strapping young tutor comfortably ensconced in the family estate. But criminologist Charles Hayward is casting his own doubts on the innocence of the entire Leonides brood. He knows them intimately. And he's certain that in a crooked house such as Three Gables, no one's on the level...

Interview with director Neil LaBute in Guardian

Filming begins this summer in the UK
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Agatha Christie's 'Crooked House' adapted for film

Crooked House, one of Agatha Christie's two favourite novels, is about to be made into a film with script written by Lord Julian Fellowes. The book is set just after WW2 and will be directed by Neil Labute, with filming to take place later this year in London.

Fellowes said: "I love the period, I love Agatha Christie and I love the idea of reinventing it. It will be exciting to work with a really vivid, contemporary director – he's one of the originals around at the moment."

To current suggestions that Christie's tales have lost their appeal, Fellowes replied, "I love Christie and don't think it's at all dated," he said. "It's one of those things that never go stale: murder in a genteel setting appeals to audiences in Britain and around the world. I first read them as I was growing up. We had a holiday cottage in Ireland, and when I was 16 I discovered my first tranche of Agatha Christie novels."

Crooked House details the story of Charles Hayward who is told by his fiancee Sophie that she cannot marry him until her grandfather’s killer is brought to justice.

Cast includes: Julie Andrews, Gemma Arterton, Matthew Goode, Gabriel Byrne

Source: Independent
Article in Guardian with director Neil Labute