Crooked House (film)

Crooked House
Directed by	Gilles Paquet-Brenner
Produced by	Joseph Abrams Sally Wood James Spring
Screenplay by	Julian Fellowes Tim Rose Price Gilles Paquet-Brenner
Based on	Crooked House by Agatha Christie
Starring	Max Irons Glenn Close Gillian Anderson Christina Hendricks
Music by	Hugo de Chaire
Cinematography	Sebastian Winterø
Production company	Brilliant Films Fred Films
Distributed by	Sony Pictures
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Budget	$10 million^[1]

Crooked House is an upcoming British mystery film directed by Gilles Paquet-Brenner, based on Agatha Christie's novel of the same name. The film stars Max Irons, Glenn Close, Gillian Anderson and Christina Hendricks. Principal photography of the film began in September, 2016.

Plot

An engaged woman holds off on marriage until the identity of the person who poisoned her grandfather is found.

Cast

Max Irons as Charles Hayward
Glenn Close as Lady Edith
Gillian Anderson as Magda West
Christina Hendricks as Brenda Leonides
Stefanie Martini as Sophia de Haviland
Terence Stamp as Chief Inspector Taverner
Julian Sands as Philip Leonides
Honor Kneafsey as Josephine Leonides
Amanda Abbington as Clemency Leonides
Roger Ashton-Griffiths as Gaitskill
Christian McKay as Roger Leonides
John Heffernan as Laurence Brown
Preston Nyman as Eustace
Gino Picciano as Aristides
Jenny Galloway as Nanny

Production

The mystery drama is based on Agatha Christie's novel of the same name. Principal photography began in September, 2016.^[2] Part of the filming was done at King's College London's Maughan Library.

Music

In November 2016, Hugo de Chaire announced that he is composing the score for the feature.^[3]

References

↑ "Crooked House – Cinando". Cinando. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
↑ Wiseman, Andreas (13 September 2016). "Agatha Christie thriller 'Crooked House' underway". Screen Daily. Retrieved 26 September 2016.
↑ "Composer on Feature Film ‘Crooked House’". Hugo de Chaire official website. 26 November 2016. Retrieved 26 November 2016.

External links

Crooked House on IMDb
Crooked House at AllMovie

Works by Agatha Christie
Universe
Characters	Hercule Poirot Miss Marple Tommy and Tuppence Ariadne Oliver Arthur Hastings Superintendent Battle Chief Inspector Japp Parker Pyne Mr. Harley Quin Colonel Race Lady Eileen "Bundle" Brent Sir Henry Clithering Raymond West Miss Felicity Lemon Countess Vera Rossakoff
Locations	St. Mary Mead
Novels	The Mysterious Affair at Styles The Secret Adversary The Murder on the Links The Man in the Brown Suit The Secret of Chimneys The Murder of Roger Ackroyd The Big Four The Mystery of the Blue Train The Seven Dials Mystery The Murder at the Vicarage The Sittaford Mystery Peril at End House Lord Edgware Dies Murder on the Orient Express Why Didn't They Ask Evans? Three Act Tragedy Death in the Clouds The A.B.C. Murders Murder in Mesopotamia Cards on the Table Dumb Witness Death on the Nile Appointment with Death Hercule Poirot's Christmas Murder Is Easy And Then There Were None Sad Cypress One, Two, Buckle My Shoe Evil Under the Sun N or M? The Body in the Library Five Little Pigs The Moving Finger Towards Zero Death Comes as the End Sparkling Cyanide The Hollow Taken at the Flood Crooked House A Murder Is Announced They Came to Baghdad Mrs McGinty's Dead They Do It with Mirrors After the Funeral A Pocket Full of Rye Destination Unknown Hickory Dickory Dock Dead Man's Folly 4.50 from Paddington Ordeal by Innocence Cat Among the Pigeons The Pale Horse The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side The Clocks A Caribbean Mystery At Bertram's Hotel Third Girl Endless Night By the Pricking of My Thumbs Hallowe'en Party Passenger to Frankfurt Nemesis Elephants Can Remember Postern of Fate Curtain Sleeping Murder
As Mary Westmacott	Giant's Bread Unfinished Portrait Absent in the Spring The Rose and the Yew Tree A Daughter's a Daughter The Burden
Short story collections	Poirot Investigates Partners in Crime The Mysterious Mr Quin The Thirteen Problems The Hound of Death The Listerdale Mystery Parker Pyne Investigates Murder in the Mews The Regatta Mystery The Labours of Hercules The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories Three Blind Mice and Other Stories The Under Dog and Other Stories The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding Double Sin and Other Stories The Golden Ball and Other Stories Poirot's Early Cases Miss Marple's Final Cases and Two Other Stories Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories The Harlequin Tea Set While the Light Lasts and Other Stories
Plays	Black Coffee And Then There Were None Appointment with Death Murder on the Nile/Hidden Horizon The Hollow The Mousetrap Witness for the Prosecution Spider's Web Verdict The Unexpected Guest Fiddlers Three Akhnaton Chimneys
Radio and television plays	Wasp's Nest The Yellow Iris Three Blind Mice Butter in a Lordly Dish Personal Call
Other books	The Road of Dreams Come, Tell Me How You Live Star Over Bethlehem Poems An Autobiography
Book Category

Films directed by Gilles Paquet-Brenner
Pretty Things (2001) Walled In (2009) Sarah's Key (2010) Dark Places (2015) Crooked House (2017)

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