Johnny Depp and Judi Dench to star in Orient Express. The extra- special, special effect in a new all- star version of Murder On The Orient Express featuring Agatha Christie’s famous sleuth, Hercule Poirot, involved months of research.

In December 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before. The fairytales, reboots, reimaginings and scandals in store this year.

All that effort was to create a spectacular moustache for the eccentric Belgian detective. So impressive was the result that Christie’s grandson, Mathew Prichard, described it as ! The remake of the classic Agatha Christie novel has a stellar cast including Johnny Depp, Penelope Cruz and Dame Judi Dench. Sacre bleu! Poirot has little grey cells . While Albert Finney (left) favoured a restrained handlebar- design, Kenneth Branagh (right) is going for the full Kaiser Bill. That tuft of hair?

Wendy Hiller (left) played the imperious princess in the original while Judi Dench adds her own Siberian chill (right) Meekly magnificent: Offered the larger role of Princess Dragomiroff, Ingrid Bergman preferred to play the Swedish missionary, Greta. Her performance won Bergman her third Oscar.

Penelope Cruz will play Pilar Pilar Estravados, a Hispanic version of Greta The body in question: Veteran tough- guy actor Richard Widmark was cast as the enigmatic U. S. With his caddish moustache, Johnny Depp (right) adds sex appeal to the role Kenneth Branagh, who plays Poirot, says the aim was to achieve something that is . The intention was to give a sense of Poirot’s past involvement with . Murder On The Orient Express is based on Christie’s 1. American businessman Samuel Ratchett on the journey to Istanbul. Branagh, who also directs the film, says Oscar- nominated hair and make- up designer Carol Hemming combed as many period references as she could find to devise the double moustache — or .

Wisely, she created several copies in case they were damaged or lost. The film features a central prop, almost like a James Bond attache case, that opens up to reveal moustache brushes, tweezers, scissors, curling tongs and everything needed to wax a moustache. Red Vanessa Redgrave's Thirties hairstyle (left) has survived the test of time and in the remake Daisy Ridley (right) will play Mary Debenham, with the same finger- curl hairdo. Ice maiden: Sultry Welsh star Rachel Roberts was almost unrecognisable as Princess Dragomiroff's German domestic servant. Hildegarde Schmidt. And Broadchurch's Olivia Coleman looks suitably unsmiling too Indeed, Christie had stipulated that it should be an .

They include Michelle Pfeiffer as glamorous American Mrs Caroline Hubbard; Judi Dench as sharp- tongued fellow passenger Princess Natalia Dragomiroff; Johnny Depp as the murder victim; Penelope Cruz as Greta, a Spanish missionary with a . Michelle Pfeiffer (right) plays the merry widow in the 2. Knight train: Sir John Gielgud (left) brought sinister gravitas to the part of manservant Beddoes, who has a secret connection with another of the suspects. Sir Derek Jacobi also looks decidedly shifty (right) In this . Download Afterimage (2017) Movie Online. The situation is full of dread.

It’s not a glossy romp.’Set designers built a railway sidings with two tracks at Longcross Studios in Surrey so that the train – which becomes stranded by an avalanche — could crash (in a controlled way!) in real time. Dunkirk (2017) Free Download. Branagh said that filming was huge fun and that Judi Dench was.

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