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The chilling teaser trailer and poster for Kenneth Branagh’s next outing as Hercule Poirot, A Haunting in Venice, has been unveiled during the 2023 CinemaCon Convention in Las Vegas. Released courtesy of 20th Century Studios, A Haunting in Venice is described as an “unsettling supernatural thriller” and is based on the novel “Hallowe’en Party” by Agatha Christie. Check out the first trailer for A Haunting in Venice below.
Directed by Kenneth Branagh, A Haunting in Venice is set in eerie, post-World War II Venice on All Hallows’ Eve and is a terrifying mystery featuring the return of the celebrated sleuth, Hercule Poirot. Now retired and living in self-imposed exile in the world’s most glamorous city, Poirot reluctantly attends a séance at a decaying, haunted palazzo. When one of the guests is murdered, the detective is thrust into a sinister world of shadows and secrets.
A Haunting in Venice reunites many of the filmmakers behind both 2017’s Murder on the Orient Express and 2022’s Death on the Nile, with Oscar nominee Michael Green (Logan) returning to pen the screenplay alongside Branagh in the director’s chair. Much like its predecessors, a brilliant acting ensemble portrays a cast of unforgettable characters in A Haunting in Venice, including Kenneth Branagh, Kyle Allen (Rosaline), Camille Cottin (Call My Agent), Jamie Dornan (Belfast), Tina Fey (30 Rock), Jude Hill (Belfast), Ali Khan (6 Underground), Emma Laird (Mayor of Kingstown), Kelly Reilly (Yellowstone), Riccardo Scamarcio (Caravaggio’s Shadow), and recent Oscar winner Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All at Once).
Acclaimed Icelandic Composer Hildur Guđnadóttir Will Score A Haunting in Venice
Alongside the stellar cast, Branagh revealed at CinemaCon that Hildur Guđnadóttir, the acclaimed composer from Iceland who won an Oscar, Golden Globe, GRAMMY, and BAFTA for Joker and an Emmy and GRAMMY for Chernobyl, and who most recently scored TÁR and Women Talking, will compose the score.
An artist who defies classification and disregards traditional generic boundaries, Icelandic cellist, singer and composer Hildur Guðnadóttir has earned a unique place on the contemporary music scene thanks to her virtuosity, versatility and originality. Now based in Berlin, she is currently enjoying unprecedented international recognition for her work, having become the first female composer ever to win the Academy, Golden Globe and BAFTA awards in the same season.
A Haunting in Venice is the next installment in the Agatha Christie shared universe that Branagh is now planning. “I think there are possibilities, aren’t there? With 66 books and short stories and plays, she – and she often brings people together in her own books actually, so innately – she enjoyed that,” the actor and filmmaker said back in 2017. “You feel as though there is a world – just like with Dickens, there’s a complete world that she’s created – certain kinds of characters who live in her world – that I think has real possibilities.”
Produced by Kenneth Branagh, Judy Hofflund, Ridley Scott, and Simon Kinberg, with Louise Killin, James Prichard, and Mark Gordon serving as executive producers, A Haunting in Venice is scheduled to be released in the United States on September 15, 2023.
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