“Hunt in Venice” is essentially Agatha Christie, but with creative license

The classic police mystery and the paranormal come together Hunting in Venicea film that is the work of British writer Agatha Christie and that explores between the real, the imaginary and the supernatural.

In Ecuador, the band directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh in the role of private detective Hercule Poirot can be seen from the Thursday September 14. Its predecessor films, also inspired by Christie’s novels, Death on the Nile (2022) and Murder on the Orient Express (2017), are available at Star Plus so you can catch up on the trilogy.

Already retired, Poirot is invited to a séance by an old friend, the writer Ariadne Oliver (Tina Fey). starring a medium who can change the skeptical and rational view of the world that dominates the life of the famous detective.

Days ago, the movie, 113 minutes longwas also presented in the Venice Film Festival. Faced with the absence of the actors who continued their strike as a union, there was the presence of it James Prichard, Christie’s great-grandson and at the same time he is executive producer of the film and president of the company that manages the author’s literary rights.

“The film It’s essentially an Agatha Christie, but with elements of horror and the supernaturaland I think people will find that surprising,” he assured the agency. EFEpresent at that festival, about the script inspired by the titled book Halloween party (The applesin Spanish), written in 1969.

Breaking a bit from the pattern of the previous films, screenwriter Michael Green starred Hunting in Venice the first film in the saga to significantly distance itself from the original story on which it is based, but retains iconic characters and the essence of the police genre writer’s work.

Prichard confesses that she is not afraid of her great-grandmother’s legacy being transformedand says that as long as the project feels like a true Agatha Christie experience, he will support the changes.

“Great stories, like my great-grandmother’s, can be adapted in many different ways. “If you have great resources, you can do interesting things, and we’re fortunate to be in that position,” he explained.

A haunted house in Venice

Detective Poirot’s challenge in this film is: not only in finding the rational explanation for events that seem paranormal, but also in the challenge of discovering the person responsible for another murder. It happened on the same evening and in the same place where the spiritualist meeting took place.

For production designer John Paul Kelly It was a good decision to place the plot in a city as authentic as Venice, because of the weight of its history and the legends that surround it in mystery.

In addition, For technical reasons he had to take on the construction of the recording set., to which he devoted all his energy to the details, while Branagh assured him that they would all appear on the screen. “We had to create an atmosphere of confusion so that the audience could follow the emotional journey of the actors. History is all about deception: is this true, is this a lie?”, said the designer.

Hunting in Venice There is also Oscar winner Michelle Yeoh (Everything everywhere at once), Jamie Dornan (Fifty Shades of grey) and Riccardo Scamarcio (John Wick: Chapter 2).