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Total Film
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Neil Smith

A Haunting in Venice producer on why the franchise is leaning into the supernatural: "We can't do the same thing over and over"

Kenneth Branagh as Hercule Poirot in A Haunting in Venice

Kenneth Branagh's super sleuth Hercule Poirot has come face to face with his fair share of murderers on screen but in A Haunting in Venice, the upcoming chapter in the Agatha Christie-inspired movie series, he's up against something more unusual: pesky poltergeists. Well, kind of, anyway.

In the new issue of Total Film magazine, which is out on newsstands on Thursday, August 17, executive producer James Prichard explains how the titular novel's nods to the paranormal are just what the franchise needed – and how important it was to shake things up with the third movie, which follows on from 2017's A Murder on the Orient Express and last year's Death on the Nile. 

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