It was not obvious that the actor of “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets” and “Dunkirk” would return to take on the role of the famous detective, given the misfortune that accompanied the production of the previous “Murder on the Nile”. They complete the cast Jude Hill And Jamie DornanIrish as Kenneth Branagh and already present in “Belfast”, the Oscar-winning actress 2023 Michelle Yeoh and again Tina Fey, Kyle Allen, Camille Cottin and Kelly Reilly. On the idea of screenwriter Michael Green – who also wrote the first two chapters, “Murder on the Orient Express” (2017) and Death on the Nile (2022) – the story, originally set in the English countryside, was moved to the Venetian capital, where Poirot will have to deal with a strange séance. “My mother – explained the 62-year-old actor to the Hollywood Repoter – at a certain point in her life, at the age of 40, she fell in love with the stories of Agathe Christie”. The reference to “Poirot and the Massacre of the Innocents” was not accidental. In the Christmas day scene, the protagonist’s mother, played by Caitríona Balfe, receives Christie’s book as a gift. The reference novel is ‘Hallowe’en Party’, translated into Italian as ‘Poirot and the massacre of the innocents’, published for first time in 1969 and mentioned in the previous ‘ Belfast’ (2021), semi-autobiographical film that earned Branagh the statuette for best original screenplay. CinemaCon 2023 audiences were lucky enough to witness the first trailer for “ A Haunting in Venice“, the third film directed by and starring the Oscar winner for his saga inspired by the classics of Agatha Christie.

The Hercule Poirot by Kenneth Branagh this time it will move to one Venice steeped in the supernatural.

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