Yahoo News John Malkovich will play Poirot in BBC three-part drama
Kenneth Branagh may have had his go as Poirot on the big screen, but the BBC is turning to John Malkovich to play Agatha Christie's great detective for a new TV series.
Malkovich will follow in the footsteps of Branagh and David Suchet as Poirot in a three-part limited series adaptation of Christie's The ABC Murders, set to begin filming for BBC One next month.
(John Malkovich stars as himself in the movie Being John Malkovich)
Taking place at the height of pre-World War II tension in the 1930s, Poirot faces off with perhaps his most cerebral foe yet - a killer who leaves behind a copy of the ABC Railway guide with every body in Andover, Bexhill and so-on.
This limited series version of The ABC Murders comes from Sarah Phelps, who has previously adapted The Witness For the Prosecution and And Then There Were None for the BBC over the last few years.
Her cast for The ABC Murders also includes Harry Potter's Rupert Grint as Poirot sceptic Inspector Crome, Broadchurch's Andrew Buchan as Franklin Clarke, Twin Peaks: The Return's Eamon Farren as Cust, Waking the Dead's Tara Fitzgerald as Lady Hermione Clarke, Cold Feet's Bronwyn James as Megan and Skins' Freya Mavor as Thora Grey.
"Set in the seething, suspicious early 1930s, The ABC Murders is a brutal story of violence and lies, the long shadow of the past and the slaughter to come," Sarah Phelps teased.
"At its centre, one of the most familiar, famous characters in crime fiction. We may all think we know Poirot but do we really know Hercule?"
Back in 2016, the BBC made a multi-year commitment to produce multiple series and films based on the timeless work of Agatha Christie through 2020.
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