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Post by anthonyrocks on Feb 18, 2019 5:33:58 GMT
anthonyrocks , you should probably put a big SPOILERS marker in your subject-line, especially as this story, of all of them, is one you don’t want to have spoiled. I’ve toyed with the idea of how a modern version would work; in this case, I wouldn’t actually mind modernizing it at all. (In fact, Christie is explicit in emphasizing the [then-]modernism of the house, so as to show [maybe?] that horrific things can happen even if up-to-date, modern places—so I don’t think it would be too unfaithful to her intentions to update it.) I’ve long had the weird idea of casting Keanu Reeves as Marston, as his surfer-dude persona would be a good update to Christie’s amoral ne’er-do-well. But he might be too old for it now. Also: I should note that the Wikipedia summary you copied is taken from AC’s play version, in which Lombard and Vera survive, rather than the book, in which they don’t. Most of the adaptations do adapt the play, but the Russian version and the miniseries keep the book’s ending, I believe. (I haven’t actually seen the miniseries.) I put "SPOILERS" in My Subject Line, I hope that that helps!
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