The has cast Edward Bluemel as Hercule Poirot in Hercule, giving the long-running detective a new face in a fresh screen reimagining. Bluemel, 33, becomes the youngest actor to embody Poirot on screen, and filming is due to get underway in Liverpool over the summer.

The casting answers the biggest question hanging over the project since it was first greenlit last month: who would take on Agatha Christie’s most famous detective this time. Bluemel arrives there with a growing profile of his own, after work in Killing Eve and Sex Education, and after starring earlier this year in Netflix’s Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials.

BritBox will co-produce the series and carry it in the U.S. through the Studios-owned service, extending the show’s reach beyond Britain from the start. The project is being housed at Mammoth Screen, the ITV Studios-backed company behind previous Christie adaptations including And Then There Were None and Murder is Easy, while Benji Walters is adapting the material and Jonny Campbell will direct the first two episodes. Charlie Palmer is the series producer and Fifth Season is handling global distribution.

The series is being billed as both an intimate study of Hercule the man and an epic portrait of Britain between the wars, with a magnifying glass turned on three of Christie’s best-known stories. It will also track Poirot’s early friendship with Captain Arthur Hastings, his first meetings with Scotland Yard’s James Japp and his introduction to a new nemesis. That is a lot to promise from one reimagining, and the reported three-season commitment understood by Deadline has not been confirmed by the or BritBox.

For now, the only certainty is that the production has a lead, a location and a summer start date. What remains open is how far the is prepared to carry Bluemel’s Poirot, and which three Christie stories will anchor the first chapter of the new series.