<Li> Manuel Garcia - Rulfo as Biniamino Marquez </Li> <Li> Sergei Polunin as Count Rudolph Andrenyi </Li> <P> 20th Century Fox announced the project in December 2013 . Michael Green wrote the screenplay for a new film adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express . On June 16, 2015, it was reported Fox was in talks with Kenneth Branagh to direct . On November 20, 2015, it was announced that Branagh would both direct the film and star in the role of detective Hercule Poirot . He later said that he "enjoyed finding the sort of obsessive - compulsive in (Poirot) rather than the dandy ." </P> <P> Principal photography on the film began on November 22, 2016, in the United Kingdom, and concluded in May 2017 . It used some of the same 65mm film cameras as Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk, which Branagh had acted in shortly before the production . The two were among the very few to be shot on 65mm film since Branagh's Hamlet in 1996, and the only ones released in 2017 . While in post-production, Branagh "was Skyped in from thousands of miles away" to watch Pfeiffer record an original song called "Never Forget" for the film's finale . "As soon as we added it on to the end of the film, it joined seamlessly and gave a moment of reflection and consideration that the film needed and wanted," said Branagh . </P>

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