Death on the Nile is written by Michael Green, adapted from Christie’s novel, and is produced by Ridley Scott, Mark Gordon, Simon Kinberg, Kenneth Branagh and Judy Hofflund with Matthew Jenkins and James Prichard serving as executive producers. He is joined by an all-star cast of suspects, including: Tom Bateman, four-time Oscar® nominee Annette Bening, Russell Brand, Ali Fazal, Dawn French, Gal Gadot, Armie Hammer, Rose Leslie, Emma Mackey, Sophie Okonedo, Jennifer Saunders and Letitia Wright.

The sinister tale of obsessive love and its murderous consequences plays out against an epic landscape of danger and foreboding, with enough wicked twists and turns to leave audiences unsettled and guessing until the final, shocking denouement.ĭeath on the Nile reunites the film-making team behind 2017’s global hit Murder on the Orient Express based on another celebrated Christie novel, and stars: five-time Academy Award® nominee Kenneth Branagh as the iconic Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. Fox movies launched on the Riviera have included How To Train Your Dragon 2 in 2014 and further back Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.In Death on the Nile, a mystery-thriller directed by Kenneth Branagh based on Agatha Christie’s 1937 novel, Hercule Poirot’s Egyptian adventure aboard a glamorous river steamer descends into a terrifying search for a murderer when an idyllic honeymoon is shattered by violent deaths. While A-list festival launches aren’t the norm for big Disney movies there is precedent: among movies to debut at Cannes for the studio in the last decade were Solo: A Star Wars Story, The BFG and Inside Out.

Searchlight is a regular at the festival. 20th Century and Disney were last on the Lido in 2021 with Ridley Scott’s The Last Duel.Īmong other studio movies to have been speculated for a Lido launch this year are Denis Villeneuve’s anticipated Dune: Part Two and one of the Yorgos Lanthimos/Searchlight duo Poor Things or And (though Lanthimos’s movies could also potentially find their way to Cannes). It’s the third film in this franchise after 2017’s Murder On The Orient Express and 2022’s Death On The Nile. Michael Green adapted the script, which is based on Christie’s story Hallowe’en Party. The 62-year-old star reprises his role as Agatha Christies. As ever with such a starry ensemble, cost and logistics of getting everyone to Venice would be an important factor. Sir Kenneth Branagh is grateful to be playing Hercule Poirot again in A Haunting in Venice. Branagh reprises his role as Poirot and directs. Branagh pulled in another A-list ensemble for his third Agatha Christie adaptation with cast including Kyle Allen, Camille Cottin, Jamie Dornan, Tina Fey, Jude Hill, Ali Khan, Emma Laird, Kelly Reilly, Michelle Yeoh and Italian star Riccardo Scamarcio.

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