The Agatha Christie-inspired franchise that began with 2017’s Murder on the Orient Express and continued with 2022’s Death on the Nile will be receiving a new installment when A Haunting in Venice reaches theatres on September 19th – and with just two months to go until the film hits the big screen, a full trailer has 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, has composed the score for this film as well.
What do you think of the trailer for A Haunting in Venice? Will you be watching this movie when it’s released in September? Let us know by leaving a comment below.
I enjoyed Murder on the Orient Express, but still haven’t gotten around to watching Death on the Nile. A Haunting in Venice looks very promising to me, so I’ll probably be having a Branagh / Poirot triple feature later this year.