Death on the Nile plans UK filming
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The next in Twentieth Century Fox’s feature adaptations of Agatha Christie’s crime novels is beginning very early pre-production in the UK.
Death on the Nile is currently eyeing an early 2019 start to filming with Kenneth Branagh at the helm calling the shots from Michael Green’s screenplay.
Branagh previously directed and starred in Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express that began filming in late 2016 in the UK and Malta – the feature went on to gross more than $350m worldwide.
The production team built a 30-tonne locomotive for the shoot, along with two working replicas of the Orient Express.
Branagh is also reportedly lined up to produce Keeper of the Diary, that follows the father of Anne Frank, Otto, as he searches for a publisher for his daughter’s diary. Reed Morano is attached to direct.
Branagh is also due to produce and star in A Gentleman in Moscow, a TV adaptation of the novel by Amor Towles set in Russia from the 1920s-1950s.
Kenneth Branagh photo via Getty Images Ent/Anadolu Agency.
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