20th Century Studios on Wednesday unveiled a new trailer for A Haunting in Venice — its third Agatha Christie adaptation from actor-filmmaker Kenneth Branagh, which hits theaters on September 15th.
Coming on the heels of the films Death on the Nile and Murder on the Orient Express — both of which were led by director-producer Branagh — A Haunting Venice is an adaptation of the Christie novel Hallowe’en Party set in eerie, post-World War II Venice. Branagh returns as the celebrated Inspector Hercule Poirot, who is now retired and living in self-imposed exile in the world’s most glamorous city. When the detective reluctantly attends a séance at a decaying, haunted palazzo and one of the guests is murdered, he is thrust into a sinister world of shadows and secrets.
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“Hercule Poirot, I found something. I’ve looked at it from every which way,” says Tina Fey’s Ariadne Oliver as the trailer begins. “I am the smartest person I ever met and I can’t figure it out, so I came to the second.”
Oliver’s concern is the psychic Joyce Reynolds (Michelle Yeoh), who has been putting on séances so real, they boggle the mind of the non-believer. “Come with me to a séance,” says Oliver. “Spot the con I can’t.”
Branagh notes that he, too, does not believe in psychics, but shows up at Reynolds’ abode nonetheless. Things get hairy when Reynolds channels the voice of a deceased young girl for her mother Rowena Drake (Kelly Reilly) and a mysterious murder follows.
“Somebody is dead. No one should leave this place until I know who did it,” says Poirot. “There must be a rational answer for all of this.”
Retorts Oliver, “Just admit that you are up against something bigger than you.”
Branagh directed A Haunting in Venice from a script by Michael Green. The former also produced alongside Judy Hofflund, Ridley Scott and Simon Kinberg, with Louise Killin, James Prichard and Mark Gordon serving as executive producers. Also starring are Kyle Allen, Camille Cottin, Jamie Dornan, Jude Hill, Ali Khan, Emma Laird and Riccardo Scamarcio.
Check out the latest trailer for the film above.
