Nevertheless, Hayward agrees, and soon he arrives at the viper’s nest that is the Leonides household.
source: Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Hayward is a struggling private eye who needs the job, but he is a bit reluctant to work for someone he has been intimate with in the past-and who may also be a stone-cold killer. A wealthy Greek businessman in advanced years, Aristide Leonides, is found dead one morning by his eldest granddaughter Sophia ( Stefanie Martini), and suspecting that he was murdered, she visits her former lover, Charles Hayward ( Irons), for help.
Outwardly, Crooked House is another instance of the country house mystery that Christie had already dabbled in with works like The Mysterious Affair at Styles, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd and Hercule Poirot’s Christmas. In fact, we could’ve gotten this film earlier-in 2011, it was reported that Neil LaBute was attached to direct a cast that included Matthew Goode and Julie Andrews-but for some reason, those plans fell through, and now, six years later, we have Paquet-Brenner, Max Irons and Glenn Close instead. If Crooked House was one of Christie’s favorites, why did it take almost 70 years for an adaptation to materialize? I don’t know for certain, but I have a hunch its unorthodox resolution had something to do with it (more on that later). Furthermore, the book is also reported to be one of Christie’s proudest achievements (one of her other favorites, Ordeal by Innocence, was recently adapted as a BBC miniseries and slated to air next month, but sexual abuse allegations surrounding co-star Ed Westwick forced the broadcaster to pull it from the schedule). This is the first-ever screen adaptation of the book, which is rather surprising considering how often her work is transferred to a visual medium. There is, however, another film that few may realize is also associated with Christie: Gilles Paquet-Brenner’s Crooked House, based on her 1949 novel of the same name. First there was Kenneth Branagh’s big-budget interpretation of Murder on the Orient Express, which, although not garnering the best critical reviews, nevertheless did well enough at the box office to warrant a sequel from 20th Century Fox- Death on the Nile. Fans of Agatha Christie are lucky to get a double dose of the Queen of Crime on the big screen this year.
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