For good or bad, Johnny Depp's character won't be around for too long in Murder on the Orient Express, as his character's death serves as the basis for the iconic train-based mystery. With an all-star list of suspects—Daisy Ridley, Michelle Pfeiffer, Willem Dafoe, Leslie Odom, Jr., Judi Dench, Derek Jacobi, and Josh Gad—it's up to Agatha Christie's iconic detective Hercule Poirot (Kenneth Branagh) to solve the murder of Edward Ratchett.
We're introduced to these characters in the first Murder on the Orient Express trailer through an excellent first-person shot, and each one of these people might be trying to hide something. Can you figure out whom it might be? The Assistant is looking pretty guilty...
That's our running theory given the evidence so far. And even with the unfortunate choice of Marco Lopetuso's "Believer" as the song in the end of the trailer, this absolutely looks like it'll be a fun mystery to solve—especially with the care Academy Award-nominated director Kenneth Branagh appears to have taken with the period of the well-traveled material.
"One of my favorite films of Martin Scorsese—a man I revere—is Age of Innocence," Branagh told Entertainment Weekly. "One of the things I thought was just so captivating was the way I was entirely transported to nineteenth-century New York. I could taste and smell [everything]. And I wanted to do that with this. I wanted to bring people onto the train, to celebrate a sort of expertise, and craftsmanship, in everything, whether it's a wooden panel or the way something is served."
Murder on the Orient Express is out on 10 November.
