The film, directed by and co-starring Kenneth Branagh, will be released in cinemas in the US on February 11 after several delays.
Kuwait has banned a new adaptation of Agatha Christie’s Death on the Nile starring Hollywood stars, including Israeli actress Gal Gadot, according to AFP.
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.
But cinemagoers in Kuwait will not be able to watch it, information ministry spokeswoman Anouar Mourad told AFP, confirming press reports.
According to Kuwait’s Al-Qabas newspaper, the decision was taken following demands on social media for the film to be banned.
Social media users pointed to Gadot’s praise of the Israeli army and her criticism of the Palestinian Islamic movement Hamas during the 2014 war in Gaza.
The war left 2,251 dead on the Palestinian side, the majority civilians, and 74 on the Israeli side, most of them soldiers.
Gadot is known for the lead role in Wonder Woman, which was banned in some Arab countries.
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.
