The upcoming murder mystery thriller is directed by and stars five-time Academy Award nominee Kenneth Branagh.
After six delays across two years, Disney is finally forging ahead with plans to premiere Death on the Nile, the upcoming murder mystery thriller from director Kenneth Branagh.
Death on the Nile, the adaptation of the beloved Agatha Christie novel will be released in cinemas in the US on February 11 after several delays.
The sequel to Murder on the Orient Express (2017) follows detective Hercule Poirot as his plan to visit Egypt to relax on a Nile cruise is dramatically interrupted by murder. Poirot must investigate the death of a newlywed found shot in the head while spending her honeymoon in Cairo.
Based on the 1937 novel by Agatha Christie, Death on the Nile is a mystery-thriller about the emotional chaos and deadly consequences triggered by obsessive love. Kenneth Branagh, back as the iconic detective Hercule Poirot, is joined by Tom Bateman, four-time Oscar nominee Annette Bening, Russell Brand, Ali Fazal, Dawn French, Gal Gadot, Armie Hammer, Rose Leslie, Emma Mackey, Sophie Okonedo, Jennifer Saunders and Letitia Wright.
Death on the Nile, which reunites the filmmaking team behind 2017’s global hit Murder on the Orient Express, is written by Michael Green, adapted from Christie’s novel, and is produced by Ridley Scott, Kenneth Branagh, Judy Hofflund, and Kevin J Walsh, with Mark Gordon, Simon Kinberg, Matthew Jenkins, James Prichard and Mathew Prichard serving as executive producers.
Disney will release the film exclusively in theatres due to contractual obligations as a 20th Century acquisition adding to it, the movie has real commercial prospects on the big screen.
