And Then There Were None (2015)

My favorite of the numerous adaptations by far. The grey, foreboding tone, the exterior scenes showing the bleak isolation, terrific performances, and the original ending!

Chef’s kiss.

Love Sam Neill

Turner was hot.

R3 very much so

I thought it was a good adaptation (maybe a tad long) but I would never describe the material as "charming". A bit too dark to be described that way.

And, while I appreciated it visually as a fan of man flesh, all the men running around in their towels and their super fit, contemporary gym muscled bodies did take me a bit out of the 1938 setting.

I have this on DVD. An excellent adaptation. I also have the much earlier one from 1945.

The 1945 Rene Clair version, even with its 'happy ending', is very good.

The ridiculous 60s/70s remakes with the locales changed to ski lodges and oasis palaces are just idiotic.

I like this version as I finally understood what Christie meant when she was describing the house as not some old manse but open and contemporary.

I don’t know much about the architectural styles back then.

I'd tongue Douglas Booth right in his tight pink bum hole, then take his load all over my face, right in front of the pious old spinster, child-drowning nanny and drunken doctor!

It's strange that this one was so good and the others successively ever more terrible.

[quote] I'd tongue Douglas Booth right in his tight pink bum hole, then take his load all over my face, right in front of the pious old spinster, child-drowning nanny and drunken doctor!

One little Indian longing for cum Drowned in a hosing, and then there were none

I wouldn’t call it “charming”, too foreboding and atmospheric for that!

It was definite best of the Christie adaptations of that era. In spite of its darkness and chill there was real life and emotion. Witness For The Prosecution and the rest were dour and humourless.

I thought the doctor was hot. I was waiting for him to hook up with the homophobic cop.

Why didn’t they use the original title?

R14 lolol

R24, as backward as the US is, somebody at the US publishing house was like, “Let’s rethink that title.”

Yes, they changed it to Ten Little Indians

Douglas Booth is gorgeous

No, according to that. Wikipedia article, the American title from 1940 was always “And Then There Were None” although a later paperback edition used “Ten Little Indians.”

Beautiful diverse cast.

The IMMORTAL Maeve Dermondy

Douglas Booth was hot

R21, Maeve Dermondy is the perfect femme fatale. When we first meet her, she’s sad and vulnerable, but Adrian Quinn’s character instantly sees her for the no-good tramp she really is. Their chemistry is terrific.

AS good as Gosford Park

Since the book was published, the nursery rhyme has changed from N****** to Indians to Sailor Boys/Soldier Boys, etc. Here's a new, DataLounge-inspired take on it:

Ten little gay boys went out to dine;

One choked on the hung waiter and then there were nine.

Nine little gay boys sat up very late;

One slept with Dahmer and then there were eight.

Eight little gay boys dancing in Heaven;

One said he'd stay there and then there were seven.

Seven little gay boys giving asses licks;

One got amoebic dysentery and then there were six.

Six little gay boys staying in a dive;

A homeless man fucked one and then there were five.

Five little gay boys presenting hole for more;

A ten-incher fucked one and then there were four.

Four little gay boys going out to sea;

A horny sailor swallowed one and then there were three.

Three little gay boys walking in the zoo;

A big bear hugged one and then there were two.

Two Little gay boys sitting in the sun;

One got gang banged and then there was one.

One little gay boy left all alone;

He found a well-hung dad and then there were none.

[quote] Ten little gay boys

Is that what one gets in paradise if martyred?

That hot doctor, R13, is Dame Maggie Smith's son, Toby Stephens. I fell in lust with him on the Netflix Lost in Space reboot. He's a helluva fine actor as well as a sexy beast.

I loved Tony Stephens as Mr Rochester opposite Ruth Wilson’s Jane Eyre.

He hasn’t done many blockbuster American movies after being somewhat burned by Die Another Day.

I like Toby Stephens in almost everything I've seen him in

Sexy pirate

Nice teeth

I'm sure he has a nice cock, too...

Ooh, I’ll bet!

First saw Maeve Dermody in a movie that was a sort of Australian “Jaws” but with a crocodile instead of a shark.

She was very good in it.

Then I literally never saw her again. So I’m delighted to see her pop up again. Sounds like she moved to the UK?

I agree with the comments about Douglas Booth -- he was at peak twink beauty a decade ago when this was made.

R9, if you want to get a good look at DB's ass, check out "The Dirt" (2019):

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# 2 :

Lovely little jiggle to that beautiful ass!

I was always more of a Charles Dance man myself

Is Douglas Booth of at least partial non-British Isles descent?

All three episodes are on YouTube so I just watched it. Surprisingly faithful to the original book -though I greatly appreciated the extended scenes of Aiden Turner clad in nothing but a towel. Lord, that man was hot as fuck!

For R39:

"Booth's father is English, and his mother is of Spanish and Dutch ancestry."

polDARK

Maeve Dermondy used to date Sam Worthington.

I first saw her in Rachel Ward’s directorial debut Beautiful Kate opposite Ben Mendelsohn, Rachel Griffiths and Bryan Brown.

[quote] "Booth's father is English, and his mother is of Spanish and Dutch ancestry."

Thanks, R41. That confirmed what I thought.

It finally clicked that I saw Aiden Turner onstage in London in the Lieutenant of Inishmore back in 2018. I fell in lust with him back then, too.

I just want to see his dick, I bet it's as perfect as the rest of him.

In the play there was a scene of him in underwear that definitely gave more the VPL...

Aiden Turner should be the next James Bond

I'd prefer him as a porn star.

r48 I think Broccoli saw him as too ethnic-adjacent or maybe too short, I forgot what the rationale was in that Bond speculation thread we had a couple of years ago. Of course, all that's now moot, gods know what Amazon will do with the franchise.

[quote] I think Broccoli saw him as too ethnic-adjacent

What does that mean?

Means vaguely ethnic. Which could scare the usual suspects in the audience.

He's white and about 6'. WTF?

He's so fucking hairy, I don't blame Babs for seeing him as semi-Moorish.

God, he's just so perfect in every way. I don't understand why all those sluts he fucked in college don't speak up as to the nature of his beautiful cock. I'd be tattling to all the tabloids I could if I had that particular notch on my bedpost.

Douglas must be in his 30s now and married. He didn't make much of an impression as he was killed off so soon in the episode, but he was stunning

R55, here is a publicity still of Douglas from the production:

It’s Aidan with two “a”s.

There’s also an Aiden Turner so it’s confusing.

Lot's of sexy guys in this version of the story. I know people who are hot for each of them.

Thank you op this is the best adaptation of And Then There Were None and, in my view, of all Agatha Christie’s books (including the famous ones from the 70s).

The performances are perfection all around and I think it helps there isn’t a too notch A list celebrity. It is very well rounded .

The modern , marbled, mansion is exactly as described in the book, as well as the island, no corners for the murderer to hide in easily.

The tension is high, the mood bleak and there are few attempts of humour. It follows the book (written at the start of the second world war).

Sarah Phelps said she was unfamiliar with Agatha Christie, it is a pity her next adaptations went haywire, but this is a classic.

As mentioned, everyone does more than an excellent job (the actress playing Vera is astounding), but i have a soft spot for Toby Stephens in the hysterical, dissolute, Dr. Armstrong (in a very homoerotic performance). The whole thing was homerotic.

Aidan Turner. But Aiden. Different actor.

Even when Turner played a dwarf in “The Hobbit”, it was hard to hide how good looking he is.

Sam Neill as General McArthur says some sort of racy things in this about Jews.

People said Turner resembled Ian Somerhalder.

Best adaptation and it's on YT.

I posted on the show's thread when this came out originally – including going gaga over Aidan and posting many shirtless Tumblr shots of him – and there wasn't much interest in it. So it's interesting to see how the sentiment has changed, possibly due to other, much blander BBC Christie adaptations that have come since.

Miranda Richardson was also quite good!