The final set of stories was released in 2013, just missing Suchet's original intention to do all of them before his 65th birthday in May 2011.

David Suchet portrays the titular Belgian detective, and his performance is generally regarded as the definitive version.

Starring alongside Branagh, A Haunting in Venice will feature a cast that includes Tina Fey ( 30 Rock), Michelle Yeoh ( Everything Everywhere All at Once), Kyle Allen ( West Side Story), Camille Cottin ( Allied), Jamie Dornan ( Fifty Shades of Grey, The Fall), Jude Hill ( Belfast), Ali Khan ( Kal Ho Naa Ho), Emma Laird ( Mayor of Kingstown), Kelly Reilly ( Yellowstone), and Riccardo Scamarico ( John Wick: Chapter 2).The ITV series of television adaptations of Agatha Christie's novels and short stories starring Hercule Poirot.Īnd we mean it adapts all of the Poirot novels and short stories. “Based on a complex, little-known tale of mystery set at Halloween in a pictorially ravishing city, it is an amazing opportunity for us, as filmmakers, and we are relishing the chance to deliver something truly spine-chilling for our loyal movie audiences.”īoth Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile have amassed stellar ensemble casts for Branagh’s Poirot to point the finger, and A Haunting in Venice will be no different. “This is a fantastic development of the character Hercule Poirot, as well as the Agatha Christie franchise,” Branagh said of the latest Poirot outing. While both outings have been met with mixed reviews critically, they have each seen much financial success, suggesting that audiences cannot get enough of these old-school style whodunnits.

When one of the guests is murdered, the detective is thrust into a sinister world of shadows and secrets.'īranagh debuted as the gloriously mustachioed Poirot in 2017's Murder on the Orient Express before reprising the role in Death on the Nile back in February. “Now retired and living in self-imposed exile in the world’s most glamorous city, Poirot reluctantly attends a séance at a decaying, haunted palazzo. 'Set in eerie, post-World War II Venice on All Hallows’ Eve, 'A Haunting in Venice' is a terrifying mystery featuring the return of the celebrated sleuth, Hercule Poirot,” the official logline for A Haunting in Venice reads. Revealed courtesy of Deadline, Poirot will once again ply his trade for detection in A Haunting in Venice, which will be based on Agatha Christie's 1969 novel titled Hallowe’en Party. It’s official, Academy Award winner Kenneth Branagh will return as probably the greatest detective in the world Hercule Poirot in a third outing following this year’s Death on the Nile.

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