{"id":142147,"date":"2017-12-27T01:50:52","date_gmt":"2017-12-27T06:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=142147"},"modified":"2025-01-13T06:08:03","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T11:08:03","slug":"branagh-teases-return-of-old-friends-in-death-on-the-nile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/12\/27\/branagh-teases-return-of-old-friends-in-death-on-the-nile\/","title":{"rendered":"Branagh teases return of old friends in ‘Death on the Nile’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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LOS ANGELES \u2014 Kenneth Branagh is teasing the return of \u201cold friends\u201d in his planned sequel to \u201cMurder on the Orient Express.\u201d<\/p>\n

Branagh is expected to both direct and reprise his role as the fancifully mustachioed lead character Detective Hercule Poirot in \u201cDeath on the Nile,\u201d another mystery based on an Agatha Christie novel, which screenwriter Michael Green will return to adapt.<\/p>\n

Branagh says he’s excited to gather an ensemble cast that could possibly include bringing back some \u201cold friends\u201d to explore \u201cprimal human emotions\u201d like \u201cobsessive love and jealousy and sex\u201d that make for a \u201cvery dangerous atmosphere.\u201d<\/p>\n

The tense whodunit \u201cMurder on the Orient Express\u201d featured an all-star cast including Johnny Depp, Daisy Ridley, Judi Dench, Penelope Cruz and Michelle Pfeiffer. It was a global hit after its release in early November.<\/p>\n

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Branagh says he was glad to see audiences responding to his quirky portrayal of Poirot and looks forward to seeing how that will evolve in the sequel.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the things that I liked \u2014 really loved doing here that the audience responded to was that Hercule Poirot, for all his intellectual power, got dragged into it, got dragged into feeling it. And I think it’s a hell of a trip, that trip down the Nile. So I think it would be great to see how he, how his heart, responds to that kind of intensity,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Christie’s 1937 novel, \u201cDeath on the Nile,\u201d was previously adapted into a 1978 film starring Peter Ustinov, Bette Davis, Mia Farrow and Maggie Smith.<\/p>\n

With a wealth of source material to draw from, Branagh also endorses the idea of a Poirot-slash-Christie \u201ccinematic universe\u201d \u2014 the popular term for a series of interlocking films that bring various characters together.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think there are possibilities, aren’t there? With 66 books and short stories and plays, she \u2014 and she often brings people together in her own books actually, so innately \u2014 she enjoyed that,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

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\u201cYou feel as though there is a world \u2014 just like with Dickens, there’s a complete world that she’s created \u2014 certain kinds of characters who live in her world \u2014 that I think has real possibilities.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, Branagh says he hasn’t exactly floated that idea with any of the brass at 20th Century Fox.<\/p>\n

\u201cI bet they’ve been thinking about it though,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

\u201cMurder on the Orient Express\u201d will be released on home video in the coming months.<\/p>\n

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\u201cDeath on the Nile\u201d is in the early stages of pre-production.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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