Besides these two recent Poirot films, there have been 14 other films to make it to the screen featuring everyone’s favorite Belgian detective. And he is set to repeat his double duties with a new Poirot movie: Death on the Nile, based on another of Christie’s most famous books, will also star Gal Godot, Annette Bening, and Letitia Wright, and is tentatively scheduled for release in 2021.

Not only did Branagh star in Murder on the Orient Express, he also directed the film. Indeed, in the 2017 adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express, Branagh sports the largest Poirot moustaches yet, looking very much like he has a gray Lhasa Apso glued to the lower half of his face.

Sorry, John.)Īs far as performers who have played Hercule Poirot in theatrical adaptations, Kenneth Branagh is the latest actor to tackle the “little man with enormous moustaches,” as Christie described him in Murder on the Orient Express. It didn’t feel like a Poirot performance to me. (I thought Malkovich did a good job playing a detective, just not the one he was supposed to be. And John Malkovich recently starred as Poirot in the The ABC Murders mini-series for Amazon Prime. It starred David Suchet as the famous Belgian detective, and it is widely considered the best Poirot performance to date. The episodes were taken from both Poirot’s novels and stories. There was an amazing Poirot series called Agatha Christie’s Poirot that aired on British television from 1989 to 2013. And the entertainment industry has delivered-there have been over 50 Agatha Christie movies over the past century! Christie’s first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, just celebrated its 100th anniversary, which means that that there have already been several generations’ worth of people to introduce to her work. Like with Shakespeare, Scrooge, and Sherlock, there is never a shortage of adaptations of Agatha Christie’s novels. In all, Poirot appeared in 33 novels, 2 plays, and more than 50 short stories published between 19. For those of you unfamiliar with the character of Poirot, he is a middle-aged Belgian man living in England, who is fastidious in appearance, and whose keen gift for solving crimes makes him highly sought after, because he is considered the world’s greatest detective. So it stands to reason that since Hercule Poirot was featured in the majority of Agatha Christie’s books, he is also the subject of most of the adaptations. And the entertainment industry has delivered-there have been over 50 Agatha Christie movies over the past century.