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Edward Bluemel (“Killing Eve,” “My Lady Jane,” “Sex Education”) has scored the role of Agatha Christie’s iconic detective Hercule Poirot in the six-episode mystery series “Hercule” for Britbox and The BBC.
Benji Walters (“Code of Silence”) is writing the series, and Jonny Campbell (“In the Flesh”) is set to direct the first two episodes with Mammoth Screen and Agatha Christie Limited producing.
The series is dubbed an “intimate study of Hercule the man and an epic portrait of Britain between the wars”.
The project will reportedly adapt three of Christie’s most celebrated stories across the six episodes, along with charting Poirot’s burgeoning friendship with Captain Arthur Hastings and his early encounters with Scotland Yard’s James Japp.
Walters, Campbell, James Prichard, Rebecca Durbin, Damien Timmer, Nick Lambon, Robert Schildhouse, Jon Farrar and Stephen Nye executive produce.
Bluemel, who starred in the recent adaptation of Christie’s “The Seven Dials Mystery” for Netflix, will take on the role of the eccentric Belgian detective played once by Albert Finney, three times by Kenneth Branagh, six times by Peter Ustinov, and across nearly 25 years of television by David Suchet.
Source: THR
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