IS it curtains for Hercule Poirot?
The television phenomenon created by actor David Suchet as Agatha Christie’s celebrated Belgian detective is fast running out of material to film. Suchet, whose portrayal is described as “brilliant” by the Christie family, is having to confront the fast approaching end to an amazing 20-year run as the fastidious Poirot. That conclusion will come in the form of a television adaptation of Christie’s novel Curtain – written in 1940, but published in 1975, the year before she died – which details the end of the detective’s illustrious career returning him to the scene of his very first novel appearance, the country estate of Styles Court. Damien Timmer, the executive producer of Poirot, predicts a Curtain episode would be about two years away. “We’re coming to the home stretch (of stories to film), and Suchet has been very daunted by, but also interested in the challenge of filming Curtain, which is the last Poirot story and which ends very conclusively,” Timmer says. “It is the final end.
