And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None is the bestselling crime novel of all time, with 100 million copies sold worldwide. It was recently voted the world's favourite Christie, and this Christmas, for the first time, a new television adaptation will be shown on BBC One.
Published: 27 November 2015
This will be the first of BBC One’s Agatha Christie’s Christie for Christmas and we very much hope there will be others to follow.
With an illustrious cast, Mammoth Screen and Agatha Christie Productions have produced a three-part adaptation of the author's masterpiece, adapted by Sarah Phelps (The Casual Vacancy, Great Expectations) and directed by award-winning Craig Viveiros.
A reckless playboy. A decrepit judge. A nervous businessman. An unhinged Harley Street doctor. A God-fearing spinster. A secretive governess. A guilt-ridden general. A remorseless mercenary. Two anxious servants.
Ten strangers, drawn away from their normal lives to an isolated rock off the Devon coast. But as the mismatched group waits for the arrival of the hosts – the improbably named Mr and Mrs U.N. Owen – the weather sours and they find themselves cut off from civilisation.
Very soon, the guests, each struggling with their conscience, will start to die – one by one, according to the rules of the nursery rhyme ‘Ten Little Soldier Boys’ - a rhyme that hangs in every room of the house and ends with the most terrifying words of all: "…and then there were none."
Douglas Booth (Great Expectations, The Riot Club) as Anthony Marston, Charles Dance (Game of Thrones, Imitation Game) as Justice Lawrence Wargrave, Maeve Dermody (Black Water, Beautiful Kate) as Vera Claythorne, Burn Gorman (The Dark Knight Rises, Torchwood) as William Blore, Anna Maxwell Martin (The Bletchley Circle, Death Comes to Pemberley) as Ethel Rogers, Sam Neill (Peaky Blinders, The Tudors) as General John MacArthur, Miranda Richardson (Mapp & Lucia, Parade's End) as Miss Emily Brent, Toby Stephens (Black Sails, Jane Eyre) as Dr Edward Armstrong, Noah Taylor (Peaky Blinders, Game of Thrones) as Thomas Rogers and Aidan Turner (Poldark, The Hobbit Trilogy) as Philip Lombard, form a stellar ensemble cast.
CEO of Agatha Christie Productions and executive producer, Hilary Strong, says: "Agatha Christie traditionally wrote a Christie for Christmas; that’s what her publishers used to call it and this will be the first of BBC One’s Agatha Christie’s Christie for Christmas and we very much hope there will be others to follow."
Sarah Phelps (The Casual Vacancy, Great Expectations) is writer and executive producer, the director is international award-winning Craig Viveiros (The Liability, Ghosted), the producer is Abi Bach (The Honorable Woman). The executive producers are Mathew Prichard and Hilary Strong for Agatha Christie Productions Ltd, Karen Thrussell and Damien Timmer for Mammoth Screen and Matthew Read for the BBC.
And Then There Were None is a Mammoth Screen and Agatha Christie Productions programme for the BBC, co-produced with A+E Television Networks. RLJ Entertainment has taken US DVD and DTO rights. A+E Networks will handle international sales under the A+E Studios International banner.
Notes to Editors
The Media Pack, including episode synopses, production credits, interviews with the cast and crew, and a graphic depicting the Ten Little Soldier Boys poem, is available to download here.
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