Mia Farrow presents her in the Ustinov film as a woman who appears to be dancing merrily on the edge of madness, while in the Suchet film, Emma Griffiths Malin played her more as a woman whose calculating, devious side was far more evident. She is prepared to commit rather questionable actions for what she sees as entirely good reasons – and indeed, many readers and viewers might see her as being a more sympathetic character than Linnet. Jacqueline, in the movies as in the book, is a complex and complicated young woman. (Without this extra depth, in the film adaptations, she seems to be a bit more of a spoiled miss who is determined to get what she wants.) In the novel, however, her character is a bit more complex: She is afraid of her pending marriage to the Earl of Windlesham, because it means the loss of her identity and her independence. Linnet (Lois Chiles, then Emily Blunt), twenty years old with her whole life and a massive fortune ahead of her, comes across as an autocratic, rather ruthless young princess in both the novel and the movies.
The rest of the cast includes Sophie Okenedo, Letitia Wright, Rose Leslie, Annette Bening, Tom Bateman, and Russell Brand.ĭeath on the Nile has been adapted in a variety of ways for the stage and the screen since its publication in 1937, including two feature-length films: the 1978 John Guillerman film starring Peter Ustinov as Poirot and the 2004 feature-length episode of Agatha Christie’s Poirot, starring David Suchet.Įach film adaptation of Death on the Nile differs in its tone, style, and the extent to which it adheres to the original novel. (Branagh is also the film’s director and one of the producers.) The main cast also includes Gal Gadot as Linnet Ridgeway Arnie Hammer as Simon Doyle and Emma Mackey as Jacqueline de Bellefort. Kenneth Branagh is reprising his role as Poirot, following his previous outing in 2018’s Murder on the Orient Express.
The legendary Belgian (not French) detective will once again exercise his little grey cells as he tries to determine which of the dysfunctional passengers aboard the paddle steamer Karnak is the murderer of the beautiful newlywed socialite Linnet Ridgeway Doyle. Hercule Poirot will return to the silver screen on February 11, in a lavish new film adaptation of Agatha Christie’s Death on the Nile.
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