6/24/2023 0 Comments Death in the nile book![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Kenneth Branagh’s second stab at the Christie canon, “ Death on the Nile,” is out this week. But nearly a century on from detective stories’ “Golden Age,” a big-budget, big-screen adaptation needs to add meaningful value to keep from flogging a dead body. its Acorn streaming platform is a haven for Christie-inspired content. Today, AMC owns a majority stake in Agatha Christie Ltd. The British author’s polished puzzles made her the world’s bestselling novelist, and adaptations of her work mirror the evolution of popular media: theater, radio, silent film, international TV, video games. This month: Kenneth Branagh’s latest stab at the Agatha Christie universe, “Death on the Nile.”Ī Bollywood thriller with dancing suspects, a giallo with huge-haired corpses in deep freeze, a porno with booby-trapped sex toys: Adaptations of Agatha Christie have gone just about everywhere. Roughly every month, Bonnie Johnson will be taking a critical look at the latest screen adaptations of books - from beloved classics to novels you’d otherwise never have known. ![]()
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