Branagh himself stars as Poirot, and surrounds himself with a star-studded cast, including Daisy Ridley, Willem Dafoe, Josh Gad, Judi Dench, and others - all packaged in a marketing campaign smothered in Imagine Dragons. Kenneth Branagh’s 2017 film Murder on the Orient Express, perhaps the best-known of Christie’s novels to feature the mustachioed detective, was a sleeper hit, with a $352 million box-office gross on a $55 million budget. That brand was also on the brink of a comeback. Agatha Christie’s beloved detective isn’t a synonym for mysteries and solving them in the same way Sherlock Holmes is, but his brand? It’s strong. Hercule Poirot? He’s got a fancy mustache, one that has appeared in numerous films, television series, and stage plays. Jurassic Park has the mosquito in amber and the clever velociraptors. Batman has those pointy ears on his cowl, the sleek car, the Bat-Signal.
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