Kenneth Branagh is tackling another Agatha Christie novel, as the filmmaker will direct and star in A Haunting in Venice, a film inspired by Christie's 1969 novel titled Hallowe’en Party.

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Director Kenneth Branagh has assembled a starry new cast for his latest Agatha Christie update, Death on the Nile. This is the second feature film adaptation of Christie's 1937 mystery, the first being the 1978 Death on the Nile starring Peter Ustinov as famed detective Hercule Poirot. [caption id="attachment_921284" align="alignright" width="360"] Image via 20th Century Studios[/caption] This time around, Branagh is back in Poirot's shoes — and iconic mustache — to solve a new murder on a new mode of relatively outdated transportation. The Death on the Nile trailer introduces us to a number of key …

Like other the recent Agatha Christie adaptation And Then There Were None, The ABC Murders (based on the novel of the same name) collects a great cast for a slow, hauntingly dramatic tale that misses the spark of the novels. ABC Murders is the first of these recent adaptions though to revive Hercule Poirot, one of Christie’s most famous and enduring creations. He was iconically portrayed for over a decade by David Suchet, but now John Malkovich has taken over the role, trading in Suchet’s wit and charm with somber penitence. The three-part series, which is now …