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David Suchet On This Morning

Tommy_A_Jones 18 Dec 10 at 4:28 p.m. GMT

Yesterday David Suchet was on This Morning and He said that next on the list to Do is Dead Man's Folly He also said that as he is getting older they can't do the Early ones, Hopefully I mis-interpreted what he said as I found it odd because Murder On The Orient Express (Christmas Day 9.00 ITV1) is one of the earlier ones isn't it and so is The Big Four which hasn't been done.

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geoffas 20 Dec 10 at 8:22 a.m. GMT

I don't understand David Suchet's remarks either. The majority of the Poirot stories on TV have been set in the mid 1930s  so in the last 21 years Poirot is, in the latest stories, about 3 years older than when the series started. The writers can set  the stories in any year they wish so how does Poirot's age effect the stories? I guess the remaining stories they film will be set just before the war and "Curtain" just after.

LovesMysteries 19 Dec 10 at 10:34 p.m. GMT

LittleSquirrel

LovesMysteries

Why is it a shame that the screenwriters did The Plymouth Express instead of The Lemesiur Inheritance back in the early days of the Suchet Poirot films? I think they did an excellent job with The Plymouth Express.

Because The Mystery of Blue Train is actually the extended version of The Plymouth Express , so if they decided to do Blue Train at that time, there is really no bother to do Plymouth Express. In order to identify Blue Train from Plymouth , the writer had to change the whole story quite hugely. Besides, I don't like the murder scene flashback in Plymouth , so much biood ,much too violent caparing to usual Poirots.

The flashback in Plymouth was a little graphic but it's nothing like the things that the producers are putting in these new Poirot episodes like Cards On The Table, Murder On The Orient Express, Third Girl. In those episodes they totally bastardized Agatha Christie's plots messing with characters and plot elements that she would not have approved of. I didn't care much for Blue Train when the story was adapted onto film. They should have been more faithful to Christie's book instead changing things around thinking they could do better than what Agatha Christie wrote.

LittleSquirrel 19 Dec 10 at 8:24 p.m. GMT

LovesMysteries

Why is it a shame that the screenwriters did The Plymouth Express instead of The Lemesiur Inheritance back in the early days of the Suchet Poirot films? I think they did an excellent job with The Plymouth Express.

Because The Mystery of Blue Train is actually the extended version of The Plymouth Express , so if they decided to do Blue Train at that time, there is really no bother to do Plymouth Express . In order to identify Blue Train from Plymouth , the writer had to change the whole story quite hugely. Besides, I don't like the murder scene flashback in Plymouth , so much biood ,much too violent caparing to usual Poirots.

Tommy_A_Jones 19 Dec 10 at 4:51 p.m. GMT

I vaguely remember watching The Plymouth Express 

Perhaps as The The Big For were meant to be 4 Short stories they could appear in Foir Hour Long Parts, perhaps after an Hour-long Drama like that one with Stephen Tompkinson, That would fit quite nicely.

LovesMysteries 19 Dec 10 at 4:42 p.m. GMT

LittleSquirrel

It wouldn't be much a pity if they don't do The Big Four ,  although always regarded  as a full-length novel , it's actually a combination of a few short stories, it'll be quite difficult to reinterpret both this one and The Labours of Hercules.  And I would like to see Black Coffee turued into a feature-length. Maybe the only regret for me is that they couldn't do The Lemesiur Inheritence.  In my opinion this short story is quite suitable for turning into a 90-min drama. What a shame they did The Plymouth Express instead of The Lemesiur Inheritence back in 1991.

I would also like to see them film Black Coffee . . . . it is a favorite Poirot story of mine. I never seen the play or read the screenplay but I read the play adaptation that was turned into a book by Charles Osborne. Why is it a shame that the screenwriters did The Plymouth Express instead of The Lemesiur Inheritance back in the early days of the Suchet Poirot films? I think they did an excellent job with The Plymouth Express.

LittleSquirrel 19 Dec 10 at 3:26 p.m. GMT

It wouldn't be much a pity if they don't do The Big Four ,  although always regarded  as a full-length novel , it's actually a combination of a few short stories, it'll be quite difficult to reinterpret both this one and The Labours of Hercules.  And I would like to see Black Coffee turued into a feature-length. Maybe the only regret for me is that they couldn't do The Lemesiur Inheritence.  In my opinion this short story is quite suitable for turning into a 90-min drama. What a shame they did The Plymouth Express instead of The Lemesiur Inheritence back in 1991.

shanty_sleuth 18 Dec 10 at 11:28 p.m. GMT

They could easily reinterpret The Big Four and make it fit as a World War II adventure or something. Same with Black Coffee. LittleSquirrel is probably correct in saying that it's an excuse brought about to ensure that this season will be the last.

I'm guessing that this season will consist of Dead Man's Folly, Elephants Can Remember, Black Coffee (if The Big Four won't be done), and Curtain.

LittleSquirrel 18 Dec 10 at 8:11 p.m. GMT

I find this quite hard to understand. If they don't do the early ones, then there are really not too much left for them to do, Stories like The Big Four The Lemesiur Inheritence and The Black Coffee are all definately early ones. The Labours of Hercules can also be regarder as Early ones. If they don't do these four, then there are only 3 left. Suchet promised there will be 6 remaining films, besides, his age has nothing to do with whether they can do the Early ones, so maybe it's just an excuse as a result of ITV's refusing to do more