Agatha Christie's The Pale Horse
Agatha Christie is known as one of, if not, the best-selling author of all time. She wrote well over sixty different stories that told many diverse tales. Most of Agatha Christie’s stories are detective stories, which gives rise to a large number of stories that can be adapted to the big screen or television. In this case, it is the computer screen and the television that the story comes to us through. This story is known as ‘The Pale Horse’, a story about the death of a young woman and a mysterious list of names that is discovered in her shoe.
Christies’ works have been adapted to numerous forms of media over the years and it was only a matter of time before this work made its way to this medium. The story sees a man named Mark Easterbrook (Rufus Sewell) embarking on an investigation into how and why his name came to appear on the list. This investigation leads him to the home of a trio of rumored witches in the beautiful village of Much Deeping called The Pale Horse. Mark begins to find connections between the witches and his deceased first wife Delphine (Georgina Campbell) and starts to wonder, despite his skepticism, if the paranormal is involved. When more people on the list start dying, Mark must find some kind of explanation as to what is happening, or he might just be next to die.
This show stars Rufus Sewell, Kaya Scodalerio, Sheila Atim, Madeleine Bowyer, Georgina Campbell, Bertie Carvel, Kathy Kiera Clarke, Poppy Gilbert, Henry Lloyd-Hughes, and Sean Pertwee. The series is directed by Leonora Lonsdale with a screenplay written by Sarah Phelps. Based off of the Agatha Christie novel of the same name, it is a true mystery story that will keep the audience entertained throughout. This mini-series will release to the public on Amazon Prime Video on March 13, 2020.