The Wrap is reporting that Kenneth Branagh is in discussions to direct a new adaptation of Agatha Christie's classic locked room mystery, Murder on the Orient Express. Ridley Scott is producing with Michael Green writing the screenplay.
Adapted several times for television, the book's only film adaptation came in 1974 when Sidney Lumet directed an all-star cast that featured Albert Finney as Hercule Poirot. Nominated for six Academy Awards and nine BAFTA Awards, it won an Oscar for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Ingrid Bergman and two BAFTAs, one for Ingrid Bergman and another for Best Supporting Actor John Gielgud.
More about the book, below.
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
A Hercule Poirot Mystery
Just after midnight, a snowstorm stops the Orient Express dead in its tracks in the middle of Yugoslavia. The luxurious train is surprisingly full for this time of year. But by morning there is one passenger less. A "respectable American gentleman" lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside …
Hercule Poirot is also aboard, having arrived in the nick of time to claim a second-class compartment — and the most astounding case of his illustrious career.
— Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
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