
After meeting Simon, Linnet agrees to hire him as her land agent. Jackie's childhood friend, heiress Linnet Ridgeway, soon arrives. He notices Jacqueline "Jackie" de Bellefort is there with her fiancé Simon Doyle. In 1937 at a London club, Poirot watches as blues singer Salome Otterbourne performs. His fiancée, nurse Katherine, does not recoil, but suggests he could grow a mustache to hide his scars. While his strategy is initially successful, a booby trap kills and injures many in the company as well as mutilating Hercule's face.


In World War I, a young Hercule Poirot devises a strategy to advance his Belgian infantry company. The film grossed $137.3 million against a production budget of $90 million.Ī sequel, titled A Haunting in Venice, an adaptation of Hallowe'en Party, is scheduled to be released on September 15, 2023, with Branagh once again directing and starring as Poirot. The film received mixed reviews from critics, who perceived it as being inferior to the previous adaptations but appreciated its old-fashioned style. ĭeath on the Nile was first released in several international markets on February 9, 2022, and in the United Kingdom and the United States on Februfollowing several delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It stars an ensemble cast with Branagh and Tom Bateman reprising their roles as Hercule Poirot and Bouc, respectively, alongside Annette Bening, Russell Brand, Ali Fazal, Dawn French, Gal Gadot, Armie Hammer, Rose Leslie, Emma Mackey, Sophie Okonedo, Jennifer Saunders, and Letitia Wright. Walsh, as a sequel to 2017’s Murder on the Orient Express. It was produced by Branagh, Ridley Scott, Judy Hofflund, and Kevin J.

Death on the Nile is a 2022 mystery film directed by Kenneth Branagh from a screenplay by Michael Green, based on the 1937 novel of the same name by Agatha Christie, and the second big screen adaptation of Christie's novel, following the 1978 film.
