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| (c) ITV - Kevin Elyot recently adapted Marple: Endless Night for television |
The British playwright, best known for his play My Night With Reg (1994), has also written scripts for Poirot and Marple, as well as adapted And Then There Were None for stage in 2005. Recently, he adapted the last Poirot novel Curtain: Poirot's Final Case for television, marking the end of the twenty five year running series. He also wrote the screenplay for the final Marple episode, Endless Night, starring Julia McKenzie as the elderly sleuth.
In total, he has adapted nine Agatha Christie novels for television, six for Marple and three for Poirot. His episodes of Poirot have been some of the finest and greatest of the series. Five Little Pigs and Death on the Nile are two very iconic stories which were brilliantly brought to life by Elyot. Especially the scenes in Death on the Nile between Poirot and Jacqueline (originally taken from Dead Man's Folly). The adaptation of Curtain was sublime, and a fitting end to the character of Hercule Poirot. His recent episode of Marple, Endless Night, was also excellent, showing new depths for the series and adding a different and altogether more dark spin on the character. I also loved his adaptions of The Mirror Crack'd and A Pocketful of Rye. However, his spin on The Body in the Library caused some controversy as he included a lesbian relationship and changed one of the identities of the killers. Although I didn't like the new ending, the episode as a whole was well scripted.
Here are the episodes Kevin Elyot wrote:
- Marple: Endless Night (2013)
- Poirot: Curtain (2013)
- Marple: The Mirror Crack'd From Side to Side (2011)
- Marple: A Pocketful of Rye (2009)
- Marple: Towards Zero (2007)
- Marple: The Moving Finger (2006)
- And Then There Were None (2005)
- Marple: The Body in the Library (2004)
- Poirot: Death on the Nile (2004)
- Poirot: Five Little Pigs (2004)
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