Kenneth Branagh’s Hercule Poirot is again within the first trailer for A Haunting in Venice. And this time he is likely to be contending with a foe from past the grave, relatively than one who merely places individuals in a grave.
That is proper, we’re speaking about ghosts. Watch the trailer under.
As we see within the trailer, the story revolves round a younger lady who died in Venice a yr earlier than the occasions of the movie. Michelle Yeoh’s character helps the lady’s mom carry out a seance to speak to the girl–but somebody is killed throughout it, and now Poirot has to unravel a doubtlessly new form of case: a supernatural one.
The trailer is promoting this angle exhausting, presenting a lengthy-for-a-trailer scene the place Poirot stands in entrance a WC mirror and sees the lifeless lady behind him, her hair soaking moist. He turns round shortly, however nobody is there.
The third Poirot film that Branagh has directed and starred in, A Haunting in Venice is predicated on the Agatha Christie novel Hallowe’en Celebration. This trailer, nevertheless, bears no vital resemblance to that story (which takes place in England) apart from a lifeless youngster being on the middle of the plot, and Poirot being current. The novel was not a ghost story–it was simply one other difficult homicide thriller that required a thoughts like Poirot’s to unravel. Thus the identify change.
Is this example truly a supernatural one? Is Hercule Poirot going to must outwit and outsmart literal ghosts? Or is that this all a smokescreen? You’ll find out when A Haunting in Venice lands in film theaters in September.
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