Exciting new trailer has been released for Kenneth Branagh's latest big screen adaptation of Agatha Christie's most popular novel MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS along with colourful and glamorous set of more than a dozen character posters presenting all the major suspects aboard the luxurious train ride, and, boy, do they all look suspicious! Who looks most suspicious to you? Following the adventures of world's most famous detective Hercule Poirot, the murder mystery will try to solve its case November 10th when it hits cinemas around the world.
WHAT'S THE MYSTERY? The fourth adaptation of Agatha Christie's most beloved novel written
back in 1934, MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS has the story set on a
Kenneth Branagh and Judi Dench
lavish train ride which unfolds into a stylish and suspenseful mystery.
It tells the story of thirteen stranded strangers and one man's race to
solve the puzzle before the murderer strikes again.
WHO ARE THE SUSPECTS?
British thespian Kenneth Branagh, who also directed the movie, plays legendary Christie’s detective Poirot stranded on the famous train during a
Johnny Depp and Tom Bateman
terrible snowstorm somewhere in old Yugoslavia. When a fellow passenger is murdered, Poirot discovers a great number of other passengers could be the
Penelope Cruz and Daisy Ridley
culprit. Johnny Depp is Mr. Ratchett, who believes his life is being threatened and attempts to hire Poirot but, due to his distaste, Poirot refuses
Derek Jacobi and Lucy Boynton
because he does not like his American face. Next morning he is killed on the train. The suspects include Judi Dench who portrays Princess Dragomiroff,
Willem Dafoe and Michelle Pfeiffer
Lucy Boynton as Countess Andrenyi, Tom Bateman as Bouc director of the train company, Derek Jacobi as Ratchett's valet Masterman, Michael
Marwan Kenzari and Sergei Polunin
Peņa as Marquez, Leslie Odom Jr. as Doctor Arbuthnot. Michelle Pfeiffer is Mrs. Hubbard and Daisy Ridley plays Mary Debenham. Josh
Manuel Garcia Rulfo and Olivia Colman
Gad is Ratchett's assistant Hector McQueen, Penelope Cruz is missionary Pilar Estravados, Willem Dafoe is undercover detective Gerhard Hardman amd Olivia Colman is Hildegarde Schmidt, a cook.
A month ago we've seen wonderful first cast photos and now the first trailer for Agatha Christie's MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS is finally here! Directed by Kenneth Branagh who also stars as famous detective Hercule Poirot, the film also stars Judi Dench, Derek Jacobi, Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Penelope Cruz, Willem Dafoe, Tom Bateman, Daisy Ridley and it will be out this November!
MURDER ON ORIENT EXPRESS
is set on a lavish train ride through
Europe which quickly unfolds into the thrilling mystery of thirteen strangers stranded on a train, where
Kenneth Branagh leads the cast as Hercule Poirot
everyone's a suspect. One man must
race against time to solve the puzzle before the murderer strikes again.
'AGE BEFORE BEAUTY'
POLLY WALKER TO LEAD NEW BBC ONE TV SERIES
British stars will be seen in newly announced BBC One TV series AGE BEFORE BEAUTY as well! The six part family saga will have the cast
Polly Walker will play Bel
lead by our dear Rome star Polly Walker next to Robson Green, Sue Johnston and James Murray.
Married to Wesley (James Murray) for 25 years, Bel (Polly Walker) has
spent the last 18 years as a homemaker and mum to their twins, but
having just waved them off to university, now has a void in her life.
Enter Teddy (Robson Green), brother in law and long time best friend,
begging her to step in and rescue the family business - a down at heel
beauty salon in Manchester's Northern Quarter.
Like Bel, it could do with a bit of a face-lift. And possibly a clear
out, since it employs her high maintenance family: mother Ivy-Rae (Sue
Johnston), Northern Soul fanatic and spray tan technician, sisters
James Murray will play Wes
Leanne, Tina and Heidi, mother to Disney, plump, seven year old wannabe
Pageant Queen.
Into the mix comes beautiful 20 something Personal Trainer Lorelei who
seems to have caught Wes's eye… can Bel reconcile the demands of her
business, her warring family and the problems in her marriage?
Delightful photo treat comes to you today from the latest edition of 'Entertainment Weekly' who have published the first cast photos from the latest big screen adaptation of Agatha Christie's famous detective novel MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS directed by legendary Kenneth Branagh who also takes the lead role of the famous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, this time with some seriously huge moustaches :) He is tasked with finding a mysterious murderer aboard the famous train stuck in the middle of a blizzard somewhere in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Her cinematic highness Judi Dench stars as Princess Dragomiroff who is acting all helpless and confused which she actually isn't. Johnny Depp stars as Edward Ratchett, a paranoid, rich businessman with dark secrets! Michelle Pfeiffer is a loud and very annoying American on the train. Daisy Ridley is the quick thinking governess Mary Debenham. Penelope Cruz is Pilar Estravados, the missionary who actually isn't a stranger to rough situations. Sir Derek Jacobi is Masterman, Ratchett's butler, who has a spiky relationship with his boss! Willem Dafoe is Austrian professor Gerhard Hardman, armed in a number of ways. Tom Bateman is flirty louche director of the train company and a friend of Poirot’s! The lavish train ride through Europe which quickly unfolds into the thrilling mystery of thirteen strangers stranded on a train, where everyone's a suspect, should start in cinemas later this November. One man must race against time to solve the puzzle before the murderer strikes again.
FIRST 'DARK TOWER' TRAILER
SETS IDRIS ELBA AGAINST MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY
Your second movie treat for today is the long awaited first trailer for Stephen King's latest adaptation THE DARK TOWER, a Ron Howard produced science fiction film highly stylized epic adventure, which should finally arrive into theatres across the world after many years of problematic production at the beginning of August!
ELUSIVE DARK TOWER
The story of the movie actually continues the one from the books
rather than directly adapting one of them, and follows Idris Elba's
The Gunslinger, Roland Deschain, who roams an Old West like and post
apocalyptic landscape where "the world has moved on" in pursuit of the
man in black played by Matthew McConaughey. Also searching for the
fabled and powerful Dark Tower, in the hopes that reaching it will
preserve his dying world.
Located in the End World, amid a sea of singing red roses, the Dark
Tower is a link to other worlds and a bridge in the time space
continuum. The studio is envisioning this as a movie trilogy with two
seasons of a TV series in between the films.
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.
'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!
Just some casting news this boring Monday, starting with our most beloved Scott JamesMcAvoy who will lead the cast of SUBMERGENCE together with fresh Oscar winner AliciaVikander. As 'Deadline' reports, adapted from the novel by JM Ledgard, the film follows the interconnected stories of James (James McAvoy), an Englishman held captive by jihadist fighters, and Danny (Alicia Vikander), a marine researcher studying the ocean floor near Greenland, as their thoughts are drawn back to the previous Christmas and the chance encounter that led to their romance!
'THE SOLUTREAN'
NEW ICE AGE EPIC MOVIE Deadline also reports on a topic we like - thrillers set in isolated
spaces! Albert Hughes is planning to take the helm and direct ice age
epic adventure THE SOLUTREAN which is supposed to star Leonor Varela,
Jóhannes Haukur Johannesson and Kodi Smit McPhee! It will be a visually
striking epic adventure survival story set 20,000 years ago during the
last Ice Age. The word “Solutrean” refers to the Upper Paleolithic
period of early advanced humans in Europe. Leonor Varela (Cleopatra from ROME) will play the
shaman; described as wise, powerful and compelling, she performs
religious rituals of protection, healing and thanksgiving!
NEW DARREN ARONOFSKY MOVIE
CASTS MICHELLE PFEIFFER, JAVIER BARDEM, JENNIFER LAWRENCE, DOMHNALL GLEESON
Meanwhile, 'Empire' writes today that rather steallar ensemble has been gathered for new thriller drama movie coming from Darren Aronofsky which doesn't yet have a title. Michelle Pfeiffer, Ed Harris, Jennifer Lawrence, Javier Bardem and fresh STAR WARS star Domhnall Gleeson will lead the cast in the movie which reportedly follows what happens when a couple's tranquil relationship is disturbed by uninvited guests who arrive at their home. Aronofsky has written the script himself and is looking to put this stellar cast to work as soon as this June!
