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Q: Will they be doing any more big-screen Poirot stories after "Murder on the Orient Express"?

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Adam Thomlison / TV Media

It seems Kenneth Branagh has gotten a taste for the character. After the success of his 2017 adaptation of "Murder on the Orient Express," which he directed, produced and starred in, Branagh will be reprising his role as the fussy Belgian detective Hercule Poirot next year.

The next Agatha Christie novel he'll adapt is "Death on the Nile," slated for release in late 2019.

Poirot appeared in 33 novels penned by Christie (and a few more by writer Sophie Hannah, who received permission from Christie's estate to revive the character). "Murder on the Orient Express," originally released in 1934, is by far the most famous and well-loved, but "Death on the Nile" is up there.

It has plenty in common with "Orient," most notably the fact that the plots both begin when a murder intrudes on one of Poirot's vacations.

This is, of course, not the first time "Death on the Nile" will be committed to film. A star-studded big-screen version came out in 1978 with Peter Ustinov as Poirot, and a TV version was made in 2004 featuring David Suchet -- one of 70 times he donned the detective's mustache.

 

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