The Agatha Christie-inspired franchise that began with 2017’s Murder on the Orient Express and continued with 2022’s Death on the Nile is set to receive a new installment when A Haunting in Venice reaches theatres on September 19th – and today the first trailer for the film arrived online! You can check it out in the embed above.
Kenneth Branagh has been at the helm of all three of these films and reprises the role of famed detective Hercule Poirot in A Haunting in Venice, which is set in eerie, post-World War II Venice on All Hallows’ Eve and is a terrifying mystery featuring the return of the celebrated sleuth, Hercule Poirot. Now retired and living in self-imposed exile in the world’s most glamorous city, Poirot reluctantly attends a séance at a decaying, haunted palazzo. When one of the guests is murdered, the detective is thrust into a sinister world of shadows and secrets.
The film is based on the Christie novel Hallowe’en Party. Michael Green wrote the screenplay adaptation.
Branagh is joined in the cast of this “unsettling supernatural thriller” by Kyle Allen (Rosaline), Camille Cottin (Call My Agent), Jamie Dornan (Belfast), Tina Fey (30 Rock), Jude Hill (Belfast), Ali Khan (6 Underground), Emma Laird (Mayor of Kingstown), Kelly Reilly (Yellowstone), Riccardo Scamarcio (Caravaggio’s Shadow), and Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All at Once).
Branagh also produced A Haunting in Venice with Judy Hofflund, Ridley Scott, and Simon Kinberg. Louise Killin, James Prichard, and Mark Gordon serve as executive producers. Hildur Guđnadóttir, who provided the Oscar-winning score for Joker, is composing the score.
A Haunting in Venice looks very promising to me. While I haven’t gotten around to watching Death on the Nile yet, I did enjoy Murder on the Orient Express, and really like that Branagh is taking the franchise in more of a horror direction with this third movie. It will be interesting to see how long he decides to stick with this series of movies, because there is plenty of source material to pull from: Christie wrote about Hercule Poirot in more than 50 short stories and 30 novels.
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