We were meant to be doing Death on the Nile this month, but because cinemas are shut and there are no new films - we decided to go back and watch Kenneth Branagh's (Artemis Fowl, Death on the Nile, Cinderella, Thor, Sleuth, Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing) first film in his Christie-verse - The Murder on the Orient Express. You know he tackled Shakespeare, so the obvious next choice is Agatha Christie. Based on her 1934 Hercule Poirot novel, the film was release in 2017 - it was adapted by Michael Green (Logan, Blade Runner 2049, Green Lantern, The Call of the Wild, Alien, Death on the Nile) and it stars Kenneth Branagh (Hercule Poirot), Leslie Odom Jr. (Dr. Arbuthnot), Tom Bateman (Bouc), Daisy Ridley (Mary Debenham), Manuel Garcia-Rulfo (Biniamino Marquez), Penelope Cruz (Pilar Estravados), Josh Gad ( Hector MacQueen), Johnny Depp (Edward Ratchett), Derek Jacobi (Edward Henry Masterman), Sergei Polunin (Count Rudolph Andrenyi), Lucy Boynton ( Countess Elena Andrenyi), Marwan Kenzari (Pierre Michel), Michelle Pfeiffer (Caroline Hubbard), Judi Dench (Princess Dragomiroff), Olivia Colman (Hildegard Schmidt), and William Dafoe (Gerhard Hardman). It was Produced by Twentieth Century Fox, Genre Films, Kinberg Genre, The Mark Gordon Company, Scott Free Productions , Latina Pictures, and The Estate of Agatha Christie. As per usual spoilers aplenty! We break down the book and the film and try and figure out whether or not the original is the best or did they improve on the text. If you have any questions/comments/requests for the show, follow us on Twitter @bks2scrn, or visit our Instagram @book2screen
