It was Christie's fifth-to-last novel (she passed in 1976), and the second-to-last Poirot novel she ever wrote, followed by Elephants Can Remember. Hallowe'en Party, which was published in 1969, which he renamed A Haunting in Venice. The director has selected one of Christie's lesser-known works for his third terrible adaptation. That means there will be a third one, with another cast of big names who either don't know or don't care that they are part of an ongoing mangling of Dame Agatha.
Sadly, neither of these dull renditions were box office flops large enough for Branagh to take a hint already. He then managed to steer into a ditch of casting choices for Death on the Nile. Then some actors miscast themselves in vanity projects, (Once again, Kevin Costner comes to mind, as does anything James Franco cast himself in.) But of these crimes, the one that refuses to die is Kenneth Branagh's ongoing attempt to play Hercule Poirot in various 1970s-style star-studded film adaptations of Agatha Christie's classic works.īranagh already proved he did not understand the character in his first film, Murder on the Orient Express.
Some actors become famous for being miscast by a well-meaning director: Kevin Costner in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, for instance, or Benedict Cumberbatch in anything that requires an American accent.
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