The chilling teaser trailer and poster for Kenneth Branagh’s next outing asHercule Poirot,A Haunting in Venice, has been unveiled during the 2023 CinemaCon Convention in Las Vegas. Released courtesy of20th Century Studios,A Haunting in Veniceis described as an “unsettling supernatural thriller” and is based on the novel “Hallowe’en Party” by Agatha Christie. Check out the first trailer forA Haunting in Venicebelow.
Directed by Kenneth Branagh,A Haunting in Veniceis set in eerie, post-World War II Venice on All Hallows’ Eve and is a spooky 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 Venicereunites many of the filmmakers behind both 2017’sMurder on the Orient Expressand 2022’sDeath on the Nile, with Oscar nominee Michael Green (Logan) returning to pen the screenplay alongsideBranagh in the director’s chair. Much like its predecessors, a brilliant acting ensemble portrays a cast of unforgettable characters inA 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).
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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 forJokerand an Emmy and GRAMMY forChernobyl, andwho most recently scoredTÁRandWomen 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 Veniceis the next installment inthe Agatha Christie shared universethat 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 Veniceis scheduled to be released in the United States on July 19, 2025.
