Murder on the Orient Express (2017 film) Murder on the Orient Express (2017 film) Murder on the Orient Express is a 2017 mystery thriller film directed by Kenneth Branagh with a screenplay by Michael Green, based on the 1934 novel of the same name by Agatha Christie. The film stars Branagh as Hercule Poirot, with Tom Bateman, Penélope Cruz, Willem Dafoe, Judi Dench, Johnny Depp, Josh Gad, Derek Jacobi, Leslie Odom Jr., Michelle Pfeiffer, and Daisy Ridley in supporting roles. The film is the fourth screen adaptation of Christie's novel, following the 1974 film, a 2001 TV film version, and a 2010 episode of the television series
Sleeping Murder the newspaper notice seeking her, which reinforces the story's setting in the 1930s as the author intended in her final revisions done in 1950. Christie’s original manuscript of "Sleeping Murder" was entitled "Murder in Retrospect" after one of the chapters in the book. When the Hercule Poirot novel "Five Little Pigs" was later serialized in the US in "Collier's Weekly" from September to November 1941, the magazine’s editing board retitled it "Murder in Retrospect". This was also the title used by Christie’s American publisher Dodd Mead and Company, presumably in order to capitalize on the recent US serialization. Christie's original