by Ricky Church
Felicity Jones (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story) is set to play classic mystery author Agatha Christie inEleven Missing Days, a film based on the true story of Christie’s sudden disappearance in 1926, which remains an enigma to this day.
Directed by Bertie Ellwood (Silo) from a screenplay by Ernesto Foronda (Better Luck Tomorrow), Jones will star alongside Vincent Cassel (Westworld). The film is based on the book Agatha Christie and the Eleven Missing Days by Christie scholar Jared Cade. The synopsis reads:
In December 1926, at the height of her fame, Agatha Christie became front-page news when she vanished in bizarre circumstances from her home. In a case of life imitating art, this whodunnit explores the investigation behind her disappearance, strangely resembling an Agatha Christie novel itself where everyone in her life became a suspect.
Cassel will feature as a retired Belgian police detective who gets drawn into the case, in a reference to Christie’s most iconic character and detective Hercule Poirot. Also starring are Nicole Elizabeth Berger (He’s Watching You) and Oliver Trevena (The Gorge).
Many theories have surrounded Christie’s nearly two-week disappearance, from claims of entering into a fugue state during a depressive episode, the aftermath of her divorce to trauma brought on by a car crash. Even Sherlock Holmes author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle joined in the search for Christie. Yet during her disappearance, she made regular visits to department stores and hotels under false name which has only heightened the real mystery of those eleven days.
Eleven Missing Dayswill begin production this summer in the UK.
