Fresh off the global success of Disney’s “Cinderella,” Kenneth Branagh is in discussions to direct an adaptation of Agatha Christie’s “Murder on the Orient Express” for 20th Century Fox, multiple individuals familiar with the project have told TheWrap.
A representative for 20th Century Fox declined to comment.
Ridley Scott of Scott Free and Simon Kinberg of Genre Films are producing with Mark Gordon. Michael Green, who wrote the new “Blade Runner” movie for Scott, is adapting Christie’s 1934 detective novel.
The story follows gifted detective Hercule Poirot as he investigates the murder of an American tycoon aboard the titular train.