Emma, Alicia To Play Agatha Christie?
Think Agatha Christie and her books appeal only to the cozy crowd? Think again. “The Danish Girl” star Alicia Vikander and “The Amazing Spider-Man”’s Emma Stone have both been lined up to play a young Agatha Christie in biopics being developed at rival Hollywood studios. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Vikander has been approached by Sony to play the celebrated crime author in her formative years as a “proto-feminist†unhappy with traditional wife-and-mother expectations. Stone, on the other hand, has been pencilled in for Paramount’s take on Christie’s “missing†11 days in 1926 – a subject already covered in Michael Apted’s 1979 film “Agatha,” which starred Vanessa Redgrave and Dustin Hoffman. The resurgence of interest in Christie follows a flurry of interest from film-makers in getting film versions of the writer’s work off the ground. A forthcoming adaptation of her 1934 yarn Murder on the Orient Express has Kenneth Branagh in the director’s chair and Angelina Jolie in the cast, is due to start shooting this summer and will be released in 2017.
