

His investigation slowly starts to unleash ghosts from the past that hint at a deeper history behind this latest mystery. Sure enough, another guest winds up dead, and it's up to Poirot to dust off his detective skills and get to work. The murder mystery, which will release on Sept. Poirot is busy trying to enjoy his retirement in peace in Venice when he's asked to be a guest at a séance in a haunted palazzo. Oscar winner Michelle Yeoh leads the star-studded cast in the new trailer for Kenneth Branagh’s A Haunting in Venice. Like Death on the Nile, Branagh's adaptation makes a few changes to update the story for the film. As he looks into it, however, he discovers a whole string of disappearances and murders around the area over the last several years that only further draw suspicion toward the party's attendees. Things take a turn for the wicked when she winds up dead and the host calls in Poirot to investigate. The major model for Gustave von Aschenbach was Thomas Mann. Almost nothing in Death in Venice was purely fictional. A thirteen-year-old girl realizes she previously witnessed a murder and tells the guests her story, but no one believes her. Thesis Statement: Most works of fiction are partly autobiographical. Branagh takes the reins once again as director and stars as Poirot as his time off gets cut short for another grizzly murder case.Ī Haunting in Venice pulls from Christie's novel Hallowe'en Party which sees the detective tasked with unraveling a murder during a, well, Halloween party. After last year's Death on the Nile saw Agatha Christie's beloved detective face a tragic tale of a honeymoon gone horribly wrong, Kenneth Branagh is bringing the character back later this year to face a borderline supernatural mystery. Hercule Poirot is coming out of retirement in the first trailer for A Haunting in Venice.
