‘Murder On The Orient Express’ Cast: Daisy Ridley, Judi Dench, Michael Peña & More Hop On Board
By Angie Han/Sept. 29, 2016 1:30 pm EST
Well, we won’t know for sure until the new film opens in theaters, but it does seem to be off to a great start in terms of star power. Branagh himself is leading the Agatha Christie adaptation as detective Hercule Poirot, and yesterday we learned Johnny Depp and Michelle Pfeiffer had also hopped on board. Today, a new report adds several more big names to the passenger list including Daisy Ridley, Judi Dench, Michael Peña, and Hamilton star Leslie Odom Jr. Find out who’s playing whom below.
Depp will play the murder victim, Ratchett. Pfeiffer is Mrs. Hubbard, a glamorous and outspoken passenger; Odom is Dr. Arbuthnot; Ridley is Mary Debenham, who is in love with Arbuthnot; Dench is the Russian princess Dragomiroff; and Peña is Marquez, a Cuban passenger. Also starring are Tom Bateman as Bouc, Poirot’s friend; Derek Jacobi as Masterman; and Lucy Boynton as Countess Andrenyi.
Although Lumet’s 1974 movie is the most famous Murder on the Orient Express adaptation, it is one of many. One of the most recent versions was a 2010 episode of Agatha Christie’s Poirot starring David Suchet. Hilary Strong, CEO of Agatha Christie Limited, has said she thinks it is time to introduce Christie’s stories to a new generation. “They’re iconic films, but they are of their time,” she said of older Christie adaptations, “and there is a new cinema audience that won’t watch films that were made in 1957 or 1974, and we want them to hear her stories.” An all-star cast is certainly bound to help in that regard.
