Felicity Jones to Play Agatha Christie in ELEVEN MISSING DAYS About the Author's Disappearance; Vincent Cassel to Co-Star
Two-time Oscar nominee Felicity Jones (The Theory of Everything, On the Basis of Sex), coming off acclaimed drama Train Dreams, has signed on to play legendary author Agatha Christie alongside César winner Vincent Cassel (Ocean’s 12, La Haine) in the noir mystery-thriller Eleven Missing Days, which Fortitude International will introduce to buyers at this week’s Cannes market.
The movie is based on the true story of the British author’s mysterious disappearance. The synopsis reads: 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.
Cassel, who will next star in the next installment of The White Lotus, will play a retired Belgian police detective who gets drawn into the case, in an echo of Christie’s most famous sleuth Hercule Poirot.
Christie’s disappearance made national and international headlines. It captured the public’s attention with leading politicians and fellow writers including Arthur Conan Doyle drawn into the search.
Speculation raged over what happened to the author and to this day there remains mystery, with some putting her disappearance down to memory loss as a result of a car crash, and others pointing to the potential of a “fugue” state brought on by trauma or depression.
Bertie Ellwood (Silo) is directing from a screenplay by Ernesto Foronda (Better Luck Tomorrow), based on the book Agatha Christie and the Eleven Missing Days by Christie scholar Jared Cade. Nicole Elizabeth Berger (He’s Watching You) and Oliver Trevena (The Gorge) will also co-star. More casting is expected to be announced soon.
Currently in pre-production, the picture is on course to shoot this summer in the UK.
via: Deadline