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Agatha Christie For The Netflix Generation? Chris Chibnall & Mia McKenna-Bruce Say ‘Seven Dials’ Evokes Sean Connery’s Bond & ‘The Crown’

January 15, 2026

Mia McKenna-Bruce in 'Agatha Christie's Seven Dials' Simon Ridgway/Netflix How do you serve up Agatha Christie to the Netflix generation? This was the challenge laid at the foot of Broadchurch creator Chris Chibnall, The Tourist director Chris Sweeney and exec Suzanne Mackie (The Crown), who responded with a cinematic vision, evoking the Sean Connery James Bond Era, Hitchock’s North by Northwest and the production values of The Crown, Chibnall told us. What has emerged is Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials, which stars Helena Bonham Carter, Martin Freeman and Mia McKenna-Bruce.

Mia McKenna-Bruce in 'Agatha Christie's Seven Dials'

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“This was about choosing the right material in the first place and then asking what the big cinematic version of that was,” Chibnall said in advance of today’s Netflix premiere.
“We weren’t going to do this quietly, we wanted to make it a visual treat for Netflix, giving it a blockbuster ‘Hitchcock Hollywood’ vibe that is a thriller but has humor and visually lavish set pieces.” Watch on Deadline Related Stories Documentary Oscar-Shortlisted 'All The Empty Rooms' Shows The Spaces Left Behind By School Shootings News More 'Bridgerton' Characters Could Get 'Queen Charlotte' Treatment As EP Tom Verica Confirms Discussions Of New Offshoots Having just set up her Orchid Pictures label, Mackie tasked Chibnall with selecting a Christie book that would work for Netflix.
After exploring the canon, he felt The Seven Dials Mystery had the global relevance that would suit a streamer perfectly.
The book is neither a Poirot or Marple but follows amateur sleuth Lady Eileen “Bundle” Brent and her efforts to uncover espionage and murder linked to a mysterious Seven Dials club in London.
The novel visits several splashy locations and ripples with international conspiracy, which didn’t land so well with several critics when it was published nearly 100 years ago.

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