Johnny Depp And Michelle Pfeiffer Might Be On Board For Murder On The Orient Express Remake

 

With a November 2017 release date still in place, the message currently coming out of Fox is that Murder on the Orient Express is dormant, not dead. As a matter of fact, new findings indicate that Johnny Depp and Michelle Pfeiffer are being considered as names of interest. It’s by no means a firm confirmation that either will board Kenneth Branagh’s gestating thriller though; neither Depp nor Pfeiffer have opened negotiations at the time of writing, but we’ll be keeping an eye on this one nonetheless.

Having been attached to the modern redo from the get-go, Branagh is very much behind the driver’s seat for this one, helming and headlining the pic as detective Hercule Poirot, a passenger on board the Orient Express from Istanbul to Paris who begins to suspect something is amiss. A wealthy business tycoon is dead and not a single soul professes to know any information, sparking a nerve-wracking search for clues as the train grinds to a hail in the face of an unrelenting snow storm.

Hilary Strong, CEO of Agatha Christie Limited, shed some light on why they’re pushing ahead with a new adaptation of the story. She said “One of the criticisms that I keep getting levied at me is that [the previous film adaptations] were so amazing. ‘How can you remake ‘Murder on the Orient Express’? They’re iconic films, but they are of their time, and there is a new cinema audience that won’t watch films that were made in 1957 or 1974, and we want them to hear her stories.”