!MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS SO IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SPOIL THE SUPRISE FOR YOURSELF WHEN YOU SEE THIS AT THE MOVIES, PLEASE LOOK AWAY NOW!
You may or may not have heard this news already, but according to Empireonline.com's website Kenneth Branagh will be starring in a NEW! Agatha Christie Hercule Poirot novel "Hallowe'en Party" for the big screen.
Being a big fan of Agatha Christie Hercule Poirot and having watched nearly all the adaptions of Agatha Christie's novels I don't know how I feel about this as I didn't really like the modern adaption of the Agatha Christie novel "Murder On The Orient Express" or the adaption of Agatha Christie's novel "Death On The Nile",- I have to admit that after seeing the first adaption I couldn't believe he'd adapted "Death On The Nile" as this is my favourite Agatha Christie novel and this is in my mind the best Hercule Poirot novel-.
So when I heard that there was going to be another Agatha Christie novel adaption starring Kenneth Branagh I was let's say reserved about this as well. But as well as this being an Agatha Christie novel which means I'll definitely give it a go but I have just read that Jamie Dornan has just been added to the cast of this NEW! Agatha Christie Hercule Poirot Michael Green adaption as well as Tina Fey and Michelle Yeoh...so there might be hope for this NEW! adaption yet.
But also according to Empireonline.com's website the plot for this will be set in post World War II Venice where Poirot is living in a self-imposed exile and being now retired, and while on Halloween he is invited to a decaying haunted palazzo to attend a seance where one of the guests is murdered where he is thrust into a sinister world of shadows and secrets.
No matter what little ray of light these NEW! cast members as well as Kenneth Branagh, Jude Hill, Camille Cotton, Ali Khan, Emma Laird, Kelly Reilly and Riccardo Scamarcio I am still not sure about this NEW! film adaption, but I'll reserve judgement as, -now I don't want to spoil the story for anyone who hasn't read or seen any adaptions of the novel "Hallowe'en Party" by Agatha Christie-, but in particular I'm thinking the ITV adaption of this and from what I've just read on Wikiepedia there is no mention of a seance in Venice...so where has this come from all of a sudden? In this novel Hercule Poirot is asked by his friend Ariadne Oliver to investigate a death of a child at a Halloween Party that was being hosted at Rowina Drake's house whilst she was visiting her friend Judith Butler in a small village called Woodleigh Common.
In the novel a 13 year old drowns whilst apple bobbing having just said she saw a murder but she didn't know it was a murder until a year later, then when asked to investigate the death by Ariadne Oliver Hercule also investigates if this murder could be true or not, starting with making a list of all the disappearance's and deaths in the last few years in the area with the help of a retired policeman Superintendent Spence, this list includes an au pair Olga Seminoff, a dodgy lawyer Leslie Ferrier, Rowina Drake's aunt Miss Llewllyn-Smythe and a teacher at the local school Janet White.
And according to a Wikipedia page Charlotte Benfield a sixteen year old shop assistant who was found with multiple head injuries,-but this isn't relevant to the story though-, Poirot finds out that the story the little girl told wasn't really her story it was her best friends story and she was just saying it to get attention, Rowina Drake and a gardener Michael Garfield started having an affair while Rowina was married and they plotted together to kill Rowina's aunt as she had found out about this and that she was going to leave all her money to Olga Seminoff in a codicil, so they paid Leslie Ferrier to forge the codicil and have it look like Olga and Leslie were working to get the money but both ended up dead and Rowena being paranoid that someone might have seen them move Olga Seminoff's body she killed the little girl when she told the tale...but Rowena then finds out that they weren't going to do all these murders and run off to the Greek Island that she'd secretly purchased using the money she inherited from her aunt Michael Garfield was more likely going to kill her off now he had an island where he could grow a garden for himself.
Although according to Empireonline.com's website this film is promising to be a "...terryifying mystery...", so that's something.
Also according to this same article on Empireonline.com's website production on this is said to begin on Halloween this year and is pencilled in to be released in cinemas by late 2023.
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