Just days after casting Wonder Woman 1984 star Gal Gadot, Kenneth Branagh has chosen yet another actor to star in Death of the Nile, an adaptation of renowned mystery writer Agatha Christie’s novel. According to The Wrap, Armie Hammer (Call Me By Your Name) has joined the film, which is a sequel to Branagh’s Murder on the Orient Express from […]
Gal Gadot joins Kenneth Branagh’s Agatha Christie adaptation Death on the Nile
Wonder Woman star Gal Gadot has become the first addition to the cast of Death on the Nile, 20th Century Fox’s follow-up to last year’s hit Agatha Christie adaptation Murder on the Orient Express, Deadline has revealed. The new film, based on Christie’s 1937 novel, will see Kenneth Branagh back behind the camera, and he […]
Kenneth Branagh is A Gentleman in Moscow
Variety is reporting that Kenneth Branagh (Murder on the Orient Express) is set to produce and star in an adaptation of Amor Towles’ novel A Gentleman in Moscow, which has Tom Harper (Peaky Blinders) attached to direct. Set in Russia (as you’d assume from the title) and spanning 30 years from the 1920s, the series […]
Production underway on Disney’s Artemis Fowl
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures has announced that filming is now underway on Artemis Fowl, director Kenneth Branagh’s (Murder on the Orient Express) adaptation of the first book of Eoin Colfer’s best-selling series of the same name. Here’s the official press release from Disney: Descended from a long line of criminal masterminds, 12-year-old genius Artemis Fowl […]
Kenneth Branagh wants an Agatha Christie shared cinematic universe
After bringing Hercule Poirot to the big screen with this year’s Murder on the Orient Express, Kenneth Branagh looks set to bring Agatha Christie’s master detective back to the big screen with an adaptation of Death on the Nile, and speaking to the Associated Press , the actor and filmmaker has now revealed that he’d like to […]
Artemis Fowl movie gets a full cast
It has been in development for years, but the adaptation of Eoin Colfer’s fantasy series Artemis Fowl has finally just got some serious movement. Director Kenneth Branagh has assembled a full cast for the film that includes some familiar faces from his past works, along with a newcomer to play the title role of the intelligent 12 […]
Blu-ray Review – Dunkirk (2017)
Dunkirk, 2017. Written and Directed by Christopher Nolan. Starring Fionn Whitehead, Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, Mark Rylance, Kenneth Branagh, Harry Styles, Aneurin Barnard, Jack Lowden, James D’Arcy, Barry Keoghan, and Tom Glynn-Carney. SYNOPSIS: Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Empire and France are surrounded by the German army and evacuated during a fierce battle in World War […]
Murder on the Orient Express sequel in development
Fox is developing a sequel to Murder on the Orient Express by adapting Death on the Nile. Murder on the Orient Express, an adaptation of Agatha Christie’s novel of the same name, was released earlier this month. So far the film has accumulated $148 million worldwide from a budget of $55 million. Twentieth Century Fox […]
Kenneth Branagh discusses the pressure on the first Thor movie
Marvel’s Thor: Ragnarok has come in for heaps of praise for its change in direction, taking the Thor franchise fully into the realm of cosmic comedy. However, it’s easy to forget now that, at the time of its release, the first Thor movie also marked a huge tonal shift for the fledgling Marvel Cinematic Universe, […]
Kenneth Branagh reveals the Agatha Christie novel he’d like to adapt next after Murder on the Orient Express
Now that Murder on the Orient Express has officially released in theaters, director, and star Kenneth Branagh is looking towards the future. At a recent press junket for the film (via CinemaBlend), Branagh talked a bit about the next Agatha Christie novel that he would like to see adapted to the big screen: Death on […]