Agatha Christie is one of those authors whose work is always being adapted in some fashion or other. And 20th Century Fox is now the home for a long-in-the-making deal to turn her book And Then There Were None into a film. The Intimidation Game**’s Morten Tyldum is aboard to call the shots. And probably the stabs.
The Thing’s Eric Heisserer will work on the script after he and Tyldum helped Shawn Levy’s 21 Laps company come up with a pitch that won the Christie estate over after years of the team trying to score the rights. Christie’s book sees 10 strangers lured to Soldier Island for different reasons, only to discover that they were gathered by false pretences. Turns out they’re all guilty of different crimes, but got away with the deeds, and now someone has decided to start meting out some vigilante justice by bumping them off. And to make matters worse, they learn that it’s one of the 10…
This one will simmer in development for a while as Tyldum is currently busy getting ready to shoot long-gestating sci-fi script Passengers, which stars Chris Pratt, Jennifer Lawrence, Michael Sheen and Laurence Fishburne. Heisserer, meanwhile, worked on the script for horror film Lights Out and sci-fi short story adaptation Story Of Your Life.