Shakespeare aficionado Kenneth Branagh has been hopping from genre to genre with his directorial efforts over the past five years; following the release of his MCU superhero adventure Thor in 2011, Branagh moved on to reboot the Tom Clancy-created Jack Ryan franchise with his origin story for the eponymous CIA analyst, in Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit. Branagh then decided to call the shots on Disney’s live-action Cinderella fairy tale re-imagining before setting his sights on another sort of re-telling altogether: Murder on the Orient Express, a film adaptation of Agatha Christie’s well-renowned 1934 murder mystery novel featuring the author’s famous Belgian detective character, Hercule Poirot.
The plan from the get-go was for Branagh to play ...
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