![]() ![]() Comparing the novel to Christie's other work, she stated, "Within the Marple and Poirot stories somebody is there to unravel the mystery, and that gives you a sense of safety and security, of predicting what is going to happen next. Writer Sarah Phelps told the BBC that she was shocked by the starkness and brutality of the novel. The adaptation was produced by Mammoth Screen in partnership with Agatha Christie Productions. ( From top to bottom, left to right), Douglas Booth, Miranda Richardson, Charles Dance, Maeve Dermody, Sam Neill and Aidan Turner.Īnd Then There Were None was commissioned by Ben Stephenson and Charlotte Moore for the BBC to mark the 125th anniversary of Agatha Christie's birth. Douglas Booth as Anthony James Marston, a socialite charged with killing two children by reckless driving.Anna Maxwell Martin as Ethel Rogers, a cook charged with allowing her husband to murder their former employer.Noah Taylor as Thomas Rogers, a butler charged with murdering his and his wife's former employer.Miranda Richardson as Emily Caroline Brent, an aristocrat charged with causing the suicide of her former maid.Sam Neill as General John Gordon MacArthur, an army general charged with murdering his wife's lover.Toby Stephens as Doctor Edward George Armstrong, a surgeon charged with killing a patient by being drunk during surgery.Burn Gorman as Detective Sergeant William Henry Blore, a police officer charged with murdering a suspect in his custody.Charles Dance as Justice Lawrence John Wargrave, a judge charged with sentencing an innocent man to death.Aidan Turner as Philip Lombard, a mercenary charged with murdering 21 African men.Maeve Dermody as Vera Elizabeth Claythorne, a former governess charged with failing to save her ward from drowning.With each death, the murderer removes a figurine from the centerpiece to coincide with the rhyme's sinister disappearance of each "little soldier boy." The remaining people must discover who the murderer is before they run out of time and nobody remains. Shortly after this, one of the party dies from poisoning, and then more and more people are murdered, all in methods synonymous with a poem affixed in each bedroom. Rogers puts on a gramophone record, from which a voice accuses everyone present of a murder. When the guests sit down to dinner, they notice the centrepiece, ten abstract art deco figurines, supposedly representing ten soldiers arranged in a circle. ![]() Ethel Rogers, but their hosts are absent. The guests settle in at the manor home on the island tended by two newly hired servants, a husband and wife, Mr. On a hot day in late August 1939, eight people, all strangers to each other, are invited to a small, isolated island off the coast of Devon, England, called Soldier's Island, by a "Mr. The serial, debuting to 6 million viewers, received critical acclaim with many praising the writing, performances, and cinematography. The programme follows a group of strangers who are invited to an isolated island where they are murdered one by one for their past crimes. The series features an ensemble cast, including Douglas Booth, Charles Dance, Maeve Dermody, Burn Gorman, Anna Maxwell Martin, Sam Neill, Miranda Richardson, Toby Stephens, Noah Taylor, and Aidan Turner. ![]() The three-part programme was adapted by Sarah Phelps and directed by Craig Viveiros and is based on Agatha Christie's 1939 novel of the same name. And Then There Were None is a 2015 mystery thriller television serial that was first broadcast on BBC One from 26 to 28 December 2015. ![]()
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