Agatha Christie's "Murder on the Orient Express"

[Roose Bolton]

Ken's mixing things up

 

[Lighthouse]

I love Branagh, but I don't know if I could stand watching him do a whole movie with a Belgian accent.

 

[dude stannis]

I'm glad Hateful 8 opened the door for that style of shooting again.

 

[Lighthouse]

I actually thought it was "The Master" that got that going again.

 

[LoganGambit87]

Willem Dafoe Joins Ensemble Cast Of Fox’s ‘Murder On The Orient Express

EXCLUSIVE: Willem Dafoe has stepped aboard 20th Century Fox’s Murder on the Orient Express. He joins an ensemble cast also includes Kenneth Branagh, Johnny Depp, Daisy Ridley, Michelle Pfeiffer, Penelope Cruz, Josh Gad, Judi Dench, Michael Pena, Leslie Odom and Lucy Boynton. The newly imagined film is, of course, based on the iconic 1934 book by Agatha Christie. Dafoe will play undercover detective Gerhard Hardman in the hotly anticipated film being directed by Branagh.

Ridley Scott, Simon Kinberg, Mark Gordon and Branagh are producing along with Michael Schaefer, Aditya Sood and Judy Hofflund. Agatha Christie Ltd.’s James Prichard and Hilary Strong are executive producing, and Steve Asbell overseeing for Fox. The film has been brought to the screen before by Sidney Lumet in 1974 and garnered several Academy Award nominations; Ingrid Bergman ended up winning an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.

Dafoe is onscreen in Zhang Yimou’s The Great Wall with Matt Damon. The busy thesp (a director favorite) has a number of projects on his plate including Sean Baker’s The Florida Project, Zack Snyder’s Justice League and James Wan’s Aquaman. His credits include an array of films from The Grand Budapest Hotel to John Wick as well as the Spider-Man franchise, where he played the Green Goblin.

He is repped by CAA, Circle of Confusion and Roger Charteris at The Artists Partnership in the UK.

 

[Eddie Dean]

Love me some Dafoe. Almost makes me wish Wes Anderson was directing this, though.

 

[Arachnerd]

William Dafoe is gonna in it?

This has my attention now.

 

[Eddie Dean]

Wait, Josh God is in this too? Gross.

 

[The Shape]

I feel like this is going to be amazing.

 

[green]

I hope it is…we don't get nearly enough films in the genre.

 

[Hunter Rider]

Branagh is certainly putting an eclectic cast together, I didn't know Judi Dench was still acting and I've not seen Michelle Pfeiffer in anything since People Like Us.

 

[Breogan]

Branagh is certainly putting an eclectic cast together, I didn't know Judi Dench was still acting and I've not seen Michelle Pfeiffer in anything since People Like Us.

No doubt, this tremendous cast he's putting together is set up to rival the 74 incarnation.
This has easily become my most anticipated film of the year.

 

[green]

http://variety.com/2017/film/news/c...der-on-the-orient-express-trailer-1202019681/

Without words, Michelle Pfeiffer and Johnny Depp give each other the eye in new footage for Fox’s “Murder on the Orient Express.”

The studio unveiled a new trailer Thursday morning at CinemaCon. Daisy Ridley, Judi Dench, Leslie Odom Jr., Lucy Boynton, Tom Bateman, Josh Gad, Derek Jacobi make up a supporting cast for Kenneth Branagh, who stars as Hercule Poirot. Depp is the murder victim, an American tycoon aboard the train.

“I see evil on this train,” a voiceover intones. The trailer features shots of Ridley, Dench and Odom Jr. in the lavish dining area of the Orient Express. The train soon comes to a screeching halt as Branagh — with blonde hair and a massive grey mustache — begins investigating the murder.

The footage was preceded by Branagh in a video from Malta where he’s filming the project. “This is not only a who dunnit and how dunnit, it’s crucially a why dunnit,” he said.

Ridley Scott of Scott Free and Simon Kinberg of Genre Films are producing with Mark Gordon and Branagh. Michael Green, who wrote the new “Blade Runner” movie for Scott, is adapting Christie’s 1934 detective novel. James Prichard and Hilary Strong of Agatha Christie Ltd. will executive produce.

The film is set for a Nov. 22 release.

 

[Pfeiffer-Pfan]

Nice.

 

[green]

http://ew.com/movies/2017/05/03/murder-on-the-orient-express-first-look/

All aboard! And we mean all aboard!

It is no exaggeration to say that a goodly portion of planet Earth’s most famous residents have gathered today at Longcross Studios outside London to shoot a scene set at Stamboul (now Istanbul) train station for director Sir Kenneth Branagh’s adaptation of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express (out Nov. 22). Branagh, who also plays Christie’s famous Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, is present and properly dressed in 1930s-era attire. So too are Star Wars heroine Daisy Ridley, Michelle Pfeiffer, Willem Dafoe, Hamilton star Leslie Odom Jr., and British acting royalty Dame Judi Dench and Sir Derek Jacobi. But wait, there’s more. In one corner of the soundstage, Josh Gad and Olivia Colman (Broadchurch) are discussing the Police Academy franchise; Penélope Cruz is gliding past the re-creation of a vintage train talking on her phone in Spanish; and Johnny Depp is ruminating to your reporter about the likelihood of his character’s long brown coat being made out of leather. “I’m feeling like it’s fake,” he says — incorrectly, as the film’s Oscar-winning costume designer, Alexandra Byrne (Elizabeth: The Golden Age), will later attest. However the most eye-catching sight is not a person but a thing: the fake mustache sported by Branagh. The item is so extravagantly outsize it almost seems more alien face-hugger than facial fuzz. “When I saw it I was like, Holy moly!” says Ridley. “But this is a larger-than-life story, so why not make the mustache larger, too?”
Poirot is always well-groomed, whether on the page or the screen. The Belgian’s care over his appearance reflects an obsessively meticulous nature, which enables him to investigate the most complex and horrific of crimes, including the brutal attack at the center of Murder on the Orient Express. First published in 1934, and inspired by Christie’s journeys on the real-life luxury locomotive which then ran between Istanbul and Paris, the book finds Poirot investigating a fatal stabbing. With the Orient Express marooned in a snowdrift and the murderer trapped on the train, Poirot interrogates a dozen or so suspects before gathering them together to hear him solve the case. The book’s large number of supporting characters allowed Branagh to cast stars keen to take roles that were chunkier than cameos but did not demand too much of their time. Even so, putting together a schedule capable of catering to the collective calendars of Depp, Pfeiffer, Cruz, et al. was no easy feat. “It was a ton of planning, I’ll tell you,” the director concedes. “A delicate web of availability.”

Murder on the Orient Express may squeeze about as many famous folks as is physically possible into a single movie. But the cover story on Branagh’s film is just the start of starry shenanigans you’ll find in this week’s issue of Entertainment Weekly.

 

[Hunter Rider]

 

[Hunter Rider]

 

[Fallen Angel]

Lovely, jubley. Although not too sure about the tash.

 

[terry78]

That stashe is gonna become a meme in no time.

 

[David H.]

That's a mustache.

 

[Hunter Rider]

 

[Jonwo]

Didn't realise Olivia Colman was in this.

 

[Breogan]

Whats' the point of him agreeing to the role then? This is a famous story he or someone on his team should know who he might play when they sent him the script.

Central to the story with a connection to every character and their motive, potential flash back with almost everyone. ...The one guy everyone wants to kill!
Why would an actor want to play that?

Cast, everything, looks spectacular!

 

[psylockolussus]

I am very intrigued by this! I am interested into seeing it in November.

 

[Breogan]

Daisy's ticket: No. 111934

January 1, 1934

LOL, just looked it up- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_on_the_Orient_Express

Murder on the Orient Express is a detective novel by Agatha Christie featuring the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. It was first published in the United Kingdom by the Collins Crime Club on 1 January 1934.