I wasn’t too much of a fan of this year’s Murder On The Orient Express, but I didn’t hate it either. The film made a ton of money at the box-office though, so 20th Century Fox had no doubts about putting a sequel into development. Death Of The Nile will roll into development soon, but MOTOE’s star and director Kenneth Branagh has been talking further possibilities for an Agatha Christie expanded universe. This could happen. Branagh, or Sir Kenneth as we should be calling him, spoke to the Associated Press recently.
“I think there are possibilities, aren’t there?” Branagh said. “With 66 books and short stories and plays, she — and she often brings people together in her own books actually, so innately — she enjoyed that. You feel as though there is a world — just like with Dickens, there’s a complete world that she’s created — certain kinds of characters who live in her world — that I think has real possibilities.”
Death On The Nile takes place on a luxurious cruise on the Nile River, where a wealthy heiress, Linnet Ridgeway is murdered. Fortunately, among the passengers are famed Belgian detective Hercule Poirot and his trusted companion, Colonel Race, who immediately begin their investigation. But just as Poirot identifies a motley collection of would-be murderers, several of the suspects also meet their demise, which only deepens the mystery of the killer’s identity.
Branagh is expected to return as Poirot as well as direct.
