Kenneth Branagh will appear again on the big screen as Agatha Christie’s famous detective Hercule Poirot.
The name of the sequel is “Death on the Nile.”Branagh will also direct the movie, and he is in the mood to build further in the Hercule Poirot cinematic universe.
The trailer is already out on YouTube.Academy Award Nominee Kenneth Branagh will return as director for another thriller based on Agatha Christie novel following up on the star-studded prequel “Murder on the Orient Express.” The prequel came out in 2017 and was well received by the critics as well as the audience at the box office.The cast who have signed up for this film includes talents from both British and American cinema, and the film is expected to be another edge-of-seats whodunit thriller.
The rest of the star-powered cast includes Wonder Woman star Gal Gadot along with Letitia Wright, Armie Hammer, Anette Bening, Tom Bateman, Sophie Okonedo, Dawn French, Emma Mackey, Game of Thrones actress Rose Leslie, Jennifer Saunders, and Russel Brand.The plot of the film is based on Agatha Christie novel of the same name, and it involves Poirot investigating a crime scene in Egypt involving a murder which is resulted from a love triangle gone seriously wrong.
The novel was written into a screenplay by Anthony Shaffer and was directed by John Guillermin.The prequel named “Murder on the Orient Express” also had star power in their cast.
The cast included fan favorite and Pirates of the Caribbean star Johnny Depp, Daisy Ridley, Judi Dench, Michelle Pfeiffer, Derek Jacobi, Willem Dafoe, Olivia Colman, Leslie Odom, Jr, Lucy Boynton and of course Kenneth Branagh as Hercule Poirot himself.The film was budgeted on $55 million, and it was a worldwide success grossing $352 million.The release date of “Death on the Nile” has been set to be October 20, 2020.These are exciting times for Branagh although the film industry has been struggling ever since the lockdown was imposed in March of this year to curb the raging pandemic.