The film is being made by Fox, who are also behind an adaptation of another of Christie’s classics, Murder on the Orient Express, which will be directed by Kenneth Branagh. The boys from the nursery rhyme are the ten little nigger boys of the original novel, changed to ten little Indian boys in the U.S.

In the US, the book was always known as And Then There Were None, but in the UK it wasn’t published under that title until 1985.

'The book, born of a long elaboration phase, filled me with satisfaction. The novel attracted some controversy for its original English title, Ten Little Niggers, a reference to a nursery rhyme that plays a key part in the plot. Ten Little Indians (1939) is Agatha Christies masterpiece and one of the peaks of the suspense novel. About the author (1946) One of the most successful and beloved writer of mystery stories, Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie was born in 1890 in Torquay, County Devon, England. But the last English-language film adaptation was in 1989, under the title Ten Little Indians – though M Night Shyamalan’s co-opted the conceit for an elevator setting in his 2010 movie Devil.Ĭhristie’s novel was first published in 1939 and – despite not featuring either Hercule Poirot or her other much-loved sleuth, Miss Marple – remains her bestselling book, having sold more than 100m copies. The story, about 10 people gathered on a remote island by a mysterious host, has already been the subject of multiple big- and small-screen versions, and the BBC are currently in production on a miniseries.

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