Murder on the Orient Express
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Short description
Kenneth Branagh directed and stars as Hercule Poirot in this 2017 adaptation of Agatha Christie's novel. Poirot, the Belgian detective, is travelling across Europe on the Orient Express when a wealthy American passenger is found dead in his compartment. With the train stopped by snow and no one able to leave, he must work out which of the other travellers is responsible, since nearly all of them have something to hide. Michael Green wrote the screenplay, and Ridley Scott and Mark Gordon produced alongside Branagh.
The cast includes Tom Bateman as Bouc, Michelle Pfeiffer as Caroline Hubbard, Johnny Depp as Edward Ratchett, Josh Gad as Hector MacQueen and Willem Dafoe as Gerhard Hardman, among 56 credited performers. It was the thirteenth of eighteen films Branagh has directed, following Cinderella and preceding All Is True.
Made for a budget of 55 million dollars, it took about 353 million dollars worldwide, a strong return on its cost. On IMDb it holds 6.5 out of 10 from roughly 320,000 votes, and on TMDB 6.7 out of 10 from over 10,000 votes. A critics' rating of 6.1 out of 10 across 300 reviews places it slightly below the audience scores. The film runs 114 minutes.
What's left behind the scenes
- A significant part of the cast and extras consisted of friends and acquaintances of Kenneth Branagh, whom he had either already filmed, filmed with himself, or drawn from Kenneth Branagh's theatre company.
- A film adaptation of an Agatha Christie detective novel.
- To add realism to the landscapes passing by the windows, giant screens were installed on the set, onto which these landscapes were projected. These views even made Josh Gad, who played Hector, feel seasick.
- The "Orient Express" ran on various routes. The "classic" "Orient Express" ran from Paris to Istanbul via Strasbourg, Munich, Vienna, Budapest, and Bucharest. The train in this film, judging by the announcements at the stations, is the Venice-Simplon Orient Express, which travels through Milan, Venice, Belgrade, and Sofia.
- Kenneth Branagh had some doubts about his character's mustache, but he took comfort in the fact that it was mentioned 15 times in the original novel of the same name (Agatha Christie, 1933).
- Barbiturate, which the detective mentioned while examining the crime scene, is a sleeping pill that is odorless. However, the detective realized it was barbiturate simply by sniffing the coffee cup.
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