who played the detective on the orient express
Murder on the Orient Express (2017 film) 20th Century Fox announced the project in December 2013.[8] Michael Green wrote the screenplay for a new film adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express. On June 16, 2015, it was reported Fox was in talks with Kenneth Branagh to direct.[9] On November 20, 2015, it was announced that Branagh would both direct the film and star in the role of detective Hercule Poirot.[10] He later said that he "enjoyed finding the sort of obsessive-compulsive in [Poirot] rather than the dandy."[11]