Paramount Acquires Screenplay about Agatha Christie's 1926 Disappearance

Deadline is reporting that Paramount has acquired the screenplay Agatha, a fictional account — and not the first — of the eleven days in which Agatha Christie disappeared in 1926.

Written by Allison Schroeder, it is reported to be an action-adventure mystery, "a female Sherlock Holmes meets Romancing the Stone."

Presumably the studio will change the name of the film, should it be produced. In 1979, Warner Bros. released Agatha, based on the 1978 novel of the same title by Kathleen Tynan, which stars Vanessa Redgrave as the famous crime novelist and Dustin Hoffman as the American journalist — and would-be detective — who tracks her down at a hotel in Harrogate.