Eleven Missing Days Adds McParland, Allen, Hardy, Martin
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- Ryan McParland, Alfie Allen, Ben Hardy, and Stacy Martin are joining Vincent Cassel and Felicity Jones in the Agatha Christie film "Eleven Missing Days," with filming scheduled to begin later this week in the UK.
- The noir mystery-thriller dramatizes the real-life December 1926 disappearance of Agatha Christie, casting Cassel as retired Belgian detective Jacques Pieters — explicitly described as an echo of Hercule Poirot — who investigates the case.
- McParland will portray William Kenward, the Surrey Constable who works alongside Pieters in the search for Christie.
- Bertie Ellwood (Silo) directs from a screenplay by Ernesto Foronda (Better Luck Tomorrow), adapted from Christie scholar Jared Cade's book "Agatha Christie and the Eleven Missing Days."
- Nicole Elizabeth Berger and Oliver Trevena also star, with Fortitude International handling international sales and Range Select representing U.S. rights; producers include Serena Films, Animus Films, Green Light Pictures, Peachtree Media Partners, and Object & Animal.
- The synopsis notes that theories about Christie's vanishing range from memory loss caused by a car crash to a "fugue" state triggered by trauma or depression, and that leading politicians and Arthur Conan Doyle were among those drawn into the original search.
Why it matters: The film packages a real 1926 mystery — Christie's 11-day disappearance that pulled in politicians and Arthur Conan Doyle — as a Poirot-adjacent procedural, giving Cassel a high-concept prestige role. With Fortitude already selling internationally and Range Select covering U.S. rights, the project enters production with multi-territory distribution already in place.
