'MURDER ON ORIENT EXPRESS'
JUDI DENCH, JOHNNY DEPP, DEREK JACOBI JOIN THE CAST
In the whole sea of the upcoming movie or television projects based on Agatha Christie's works (click on her name tag below the post to see them all), surely one of the most intriguing ones will be Kenneth Branagh's MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS and rumour has it that it might have a rather stellar cast: Judi Dench and Johnny Depp have been cast alongside Michelle Pfeiffer and Daisy Ridley.
MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS will see travellers stuck in the snowstorm in the
middle of old Yugoslavia with a murderer in the train, with Branagh himself playing Hercule Poirot, Depp will be Ratchett, Pfeiffer is Mrs.
Hubbard, Daisy Ridley is Mary Debenham. Judi Dench will portray Princess
Dragomiroff, and Lucy Boynton Countess Andrenyi. Tom Bateman will be
Bouc, while legendary Derek Jacobi is Masterman, Michael Peņa is
Marquez, and Leslie Odom Jr. will be Doctor Arbuthnot.
'COUNTERPART' SF SERIES
HARRY LLOYD JOINS THE CAST
In the television world, Starz is casting for its new sf thriller
series COUNTERPART which already has two 10 episodes season ordered!
Harry Lloyd and Olivia Williams have just joined JK Simmons who leads
the cast as Howard Silk a lowly cog in a bureaucratic agency who
discovers that the agency he works for is really guarding a crossing
into a parallel dimension. Through Howard and his Counterpart on the
other side, the show will navigate themes of identity, what-ifs and lost
love. Olivia Williams will play his wife, a mysterious woman whose
secrets become the center piece of the first season’s story. Lloyd will
be a director at Howard’s agency whose carefully calibrated career
slowly begins to unravel as he sinks deeper into the world of espionage
and double lives.
In the television world, Starz is casting for its new sf thriller
series COUNTERPART which already has two 10 episodes season ordered!
Harry Lloyd and Olivia Williams have just joined JK Simmons who leads
the cast as Howard Silk a lowly cog in a bureaucratic agency who
discovers that the agency he works for is really guarding a crossing
into a parallel dimension. Through Howard and his Counterpart on the
other side, the show will navigate themes of identity, what-ifs and lost
love. Olivia Williams will play his wife, a mysterious woman whose
secrets become the center piece of the first season’s story. Lloyd will
be a director at Howard’s agency whose carefully calibrated career
slowly begins to unravel as he sinks deeper into the world of espionage
and double lives.
'ATTRACTION' SF TRAILER
WILL LEAVE YOU STUNNED
And a stunning trailer for you coming from Russian 2017 sf movie ATTRACTION or Притяжение! Directed by Russian moviemaker Fedor Bondarchuk, it depicts the first arrival of alien ships onto planet Earth straight over Moscow ... and it seems they're not coming in a friendly manner at all judging from the mindblowing trailer below!
What an amazing cast for "Murder on the Orient Express!"
ReplyDeleteyes, especially now that Ebilina Jolie is out of the movie :)
DeleteMurder on the Orient Express definitely piques my interest but really everything here today looks good.
ReplyDeletetwas a good offer today!
DeleteMurder sounds excellent! I just watched The Exotic Marigold Hotel with the lovely Dench just yesterday.
ReplyDeleteI watched the second one recently and it was a tad bit too long, thought it would never end :)))
DeleteBut, was it good? I'll put it on my ipad and keep in on in the background as I am doing the household chores, so if it takes too long that's alright.
Deleteit was nice, but it really does not need to last two hours or more... it did have lovely Indian choreographies and mob dances :) which I kinda liked, and Judi and Maggie are always nice, but I did feel asleep a few times especially during Richard Gere scenes :)
DeleteOh, I adore Judi Dench!
ReplyDelete-Kati
we bow to her!
DeleteMurder on the orient express is one of my fave from Agatha Christie. I have a complete set of her books. Hmmm..I was wondering where I keep them all :). And having Judi Dench and Johnny Depp will be awesome..
ReplyDeleteshould be a really nice movie especially with Branagh
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