Kenneth Branagh’s Death on the Nile seems to forget Agatha Christie was a master of the murder mystery
- Written by: Stuart Richards, Lecturer in Screen Studies, University of South Australia
DisneyKenneth Branagh’s new adaptation of Death on the Nile arrives with a lot of preconceived baggage. We know Agatha Christie. We know Poirot.
Christie’s influence on the murder mystery genre cannot be understated. Her stories feature heavily in the contemporary media landscape; reruns of various incarnations regularly appear in...