Christie Talk
Previous Styles- NOT A Great Poirot Next The Hollow
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GKCfan on 22 Oct 2009 at 7:25 p.m. GMT
Who could you see as playing the young Poirot?
In the canonical Christie, we only see a few references to Poirot's early cases. The only case recounted in depth is "The Chocolate Box," which has been filmed. We also see a couple of references to the soap-manufacturer who poisoned his wife to marry a blonde secretary. We also know of the Abercrombie Forgery Case, where Poirot and Japp first met. Other than another case where Poirot was forced to shoot and kill a criminal in the line of duty, I think that's all we know about Poirot's early years.
Bundle_ on 22 Oct 2009 at 7:40 p.m. GMT
Yeah, but if they want to put their own stamp on Christie's work like they do w/ the Marple adaptations and some of the Poirot's then why don't they just do something different altogether? Like Chris Chan said in The Blog: why don't they do a series w/ Ms. Oliver's detective Sven Hjerson? I think the same idea would apply to adapting Poirot's earlier days.
As for who they would get to play him, I have no idea. But that's why I mentioned that it would have been better if they had done this before they delved into his known mysteries. But I'm sure they could find somebody. I was not suggesting a full series of it, btw, just maybe one or two episodes.
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Wouldn't it be great if instead of the producers, screenwriters, etc. messing w/ some of the orinigal plots of Poirot books (i.e. Roger Ackryod), that they made an adaptation of when Poirot was an police officer in Belgium?! The only problem w/ this is, though, that it would have been betetr for them to do this BEFORE the Poirot series officaly started.