Murder on the Orient Express

Murder on the Orient Express (2017)

Timing: 1:54 (114 min)

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Release date

2017-11-03

Country

United Kingdom, United States

Production

20th Century Fox, Genre Films, The Mark Gordon Company, Scott Free Productions, Scott Free Productions

Genre

Mystery, Drama, Crime

Budget

$55 000 000

Revenue

$352 800 000

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Director

Kenneth Branagh

Actors

Kenneth Branagh, Tom Bateman, Michelle Pfeiffer, Johnny Depp, Josh Gad, Willem Dafoe, Judi Dench, Derek Jacobi, Leslie Odom Jr., Daisy Ridley
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Scenario

Producer

Ridley Scott, Mark Gordon, Kenneth Branagh, Simon Kinberg, Michael Schaefer, Judy Hofflund, Aditya Sood, Matthew Jenkins, James Prichard, Hilary Strong

Operator

Haris Zambarloukos

Composer

Patrick Doyle

Artist

Quinn Robinson, Emma Clough

Audition

Lucy Bevan

Editing

Mick Audsley
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• A film adaptation of an Agatha Christie detective novel.
• The "Orient Express" ran on various routes. The "classic" "Orient Express" ran from Paris to Istanbul via Strasbourg, Munich, Vienna, Budapest, and Bucharest. The train in this film, judging by the announcements at the stations, is the Venice-Simplon Orient Express, which travels through Milan, Venice, Belgrade, and Sofia.
• Kenneth Branagh had some doubts about his character's mustache, but he took comfort in the fact that it was mentioned 15 times in the original novel of the same name (Agatha Christie, 1933).
• To add realism to the landscapes passing by the windows, giant screens were installed on the set, onto which these landscapes were projected. These views even made Josh Gad, who played Hector, feel seasick.
• A significant part of the cast and extras consisted of friends and acquaintances of Kenneth Branagh, whom he had either already filmed, filmed with himself, or drawn from Kenneth Branagh's theatre company.
• Barbiturate, which the detective mentioned while examining the crime scene, is a sleeping pill that is odorless. However, the detective realized it was barbiturate simply by sniffing the coffee cup.