Murder on the Orient Express is an upcoming British-American mystery film directed by Kenneth Branagh. The screenplay by Michael Green is based on the 1934 novel of the same name by Agatha Christie. The film stars Branagh, Tom Bateman, Lucy Boynton, Olivia Colman, Penélope Cruz, Willem Dafoe, Judi Dench, Johnny Depp, Josh Gad, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Derek Jacobi, Marwan Kenzari, Leslie Odom Jr., Michelle Pfeiffer, Sergei Polunin, and Daisy Ridley. Scheduled to be released on November 10, 2017, by 20th Century Fox, the film is the third motion picture adaptation of Christie's novel, following Sidney Lumet's 1974 version[1] and Carl Schenkel's 2001 version.