LOS ANGELES, Sept 30 — Johnny Depp has joined the cast for Kenneth Branagh’s star-studded adaptation of Agatha Christie’s novel Murder on the Orient Express, along with Michelle Pfeiffer, Daisy Ridley, Michael Pena and Judi Dench, Deadline reports.
The film, which also has Hamilton star Leslie Odom Jr attached, follows the original novel plot and centres on a special detective — Hercule Poirot (Branagh) — who boards a train from Jerusalem to Europe, where a murder is committed in the car next to his during a snowstorm, and he begins to investigate the mystery.
The movie, which is also to be helmed and produced by Branagh, in addition to Ridley Scott, Simon Kinberg, Mark Gordon, Aditya Sood and Michael Schaefer, also has James Prichard, the author’s great grandson and chairman of Agatha Christie Ltd, and Hilary Strong, CEO at Agatha Christie Ltd, attached to executive produce, with a slated release date of November 22, 2017.
Depp most recently starred in Black Mass and Alice Through the Looking Glass.— AFP-Relaxnews
