Poirot Sequel to Murder On the Orient Express in the Works

Kenneth Branagh’s Murder on the Orient Express was the type of stuff that holiday movie release dreams are made of. The Agatha Christie adaptation was an exciting adventure in a beautiful, sweeping, snowy landscape filled with compelling performances. The stylized camera work was fresh and interesting as it moved through the train cars without being a distraction. After only two weekends in theaters, Twentieth Century Fox has ordered the sequel Death on the Nile.

Watch an A-List Cast Under Suspicion in Murder on the Orient Express Trailer

Director/star Kenneth Branagh's Murder on the Orient Express is a star-studded caper that, like the great Sidney Lumet's adaptation from 1974, looks to turn Agatha Christie's 1934 novel into cinematic gold. Adapted by screenwriter Michael Green (Logan, Alien: Covenant), Branagh not only directs the film, but stars as detective Hercule Poirot, the Belgian detective who Christie made famous in 33 novels. The plot is baked right there in the title; A lavish train ride through Europe is turned into a crime scene when a passenger is murdered,