A Haunting In Venice: Release Date, Cast, Story Details, Trailer & Everything We Know (2024)

A Haunting in Venice is the latest entry in Kenneth Branagh’s Hercule Poirot franchise, and here's everything to know before the A Haunting in Venice release date. A sequel to Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile, A Haunting in Venice sees Branagh reprising his role as Poirot to solve a new mystery. Based on the Agatha Christie novel Hallowe’en Party, A Haunting in Venice sees retired Poirot trying to find the perpetrator of a murder at a séance. While the first two movies were standard murder mysteries adapted from two of Christie’s best-known classics, A Haunting in Venice is shaking up the formula with deep-cut source material and a supernatural twist.

A Haunting in Venice news has been highly anticipated. Both Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile were warmly received by critics and performed well at the box office (although Death on the Nile’s release was impacted by the pandemic), so 20th Century Studios is eager to keep the series going with more Poirot mysteries on the big screen. Branagh is back in the director’s chair and returning to the role of Poirot for a paranormal spin on the whodunit genre. From an all-star cast to a creepy story setup to a fast-approaching A Haunting in Venice release date, a lot of exciting details have been revealed about the threequel.

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Most Recent A Haunting In Venice News

The most recent A Haunting in Venice 2023 movie news is a featurette-style trailer that looks at the new ensemble cast in the Agatha Christie story. The new A Haunting in Venice trailer reveals that Tina Fey's Ariadne Olive is actually loosely based on Agatha Christie herself, which makes for something of a meta twist on top of the genre switch-up to thriller. Ariadne isn't an original character created for the movie, as she was still a tongue-in-cheek creation by Christie and appeared in a number of novels. The fact that the character is played by a comedy actor in A Haunting in Venice means that the thriller movie will still keep some of the series' goofy humor.

The featurette was a great way to market the movie before the A Haunting in Venice release date, as the trailer not only gives a look into Fey's character but every other character in the séance too. The featurette showcases Michelle Yeoh, Jamie Dornan, Kelly Reilly, and several others, who all become Poirot's suspects in the threequel. Most notably, Mrs. Reynolds (Yeoh) is the seance organizer and seemingly becomes possessed by a dark spirit. While Ariadne is an old friend of Poriot's she becomes one of Poirot's suspects in the A Haunting in Venice movie too.

A Haunting In Venice Release Date

The A Haunting in Venice release date is September 15, 2023. The A Haunting in Venice release date is shared with Challengers, Luca Guadagnino’s sports romance starring Zendaya as a tennis player caught in a love triangle. Given the September A Haunting in Venice release date, the movie will face competition from other highly anticipated sequels like The Equalizer 3, The Nun 2, My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3, and Expend4bles.

The A Haunting in Venice release date follows Death on the Nile by just over 18 months, and it's hardly surprising that the threequel was greenlit so quickly given how popular the series is. Michael Green, the writer of both Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile, returned for the threequel, which is based on Christie’s novel Hallowe’en Party. The supernatural themes of A Haunting in Venice are a departure from the franchise. Though the A Haunting in Venice 2023 movie is styled more as a spooky thriller than a full-blown horror film, its paranormal elements are a first for the series.

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A Haunting In Venice Cast

Like its predecessors, the A Haunting in Venice cast is star-studded and totally brings its ensemble of suspects to life. Director Kenneth Branagh reprises his role as Hercule Poirot, one of the world’s greatest (and most eccentric) detectives, in A Haunting in Venice. Branagh is backed up by Jude Hill and Jamie Dornan, who play Leopold Ferrier and Leopold’s father in the A Haunting in Venice cast. Previously, Branagh cast Hill and Dornan as a father and son in his Oscar-winning semi-autobiographical coming-of-age movie Belfast, for which Hill won the Critics’ Choice Award for Best Young Performer.

After winning the Academy Award for Best Actress for her turn as Evelyn Quan Wang in Everything Everywhere All at Once, Michelle Yeoh now joins the A Haunting in Venice cast as Joyce Reynolds. Tina Fey, a former head writer of Saturday Night Live and creator and star of 30 Rock, plays a recurring character from the Christie novels, Ariadne Oliver, a mystery novelist based on Christie herself and friend of Poirot’s. Kyle Allen, best known as Balkan from Steven Spielberg’s superior West Side Story remake, plays Maxime Gerard, while Camille Cottin, best known as Paola Franchi in Ridley Scott’s true-crime caper House of Gucci, plays Olga Seminoff.

Ali Khan, the young actor who played Chaddick in the Netflix fantasy film The School for Good and Evil, appears in the A Haunting in Venice cast as Nicholas Holland. Desdemona Holland is played by Emma Laird, who previously played Iris in the hit Paramount Plus crime drama series Mayor of Kingstown. Kelly Reilly, best known as Dr. Watson’s wife Mary Morstan from Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes and its sequel, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, plays Rowena Drake in A Haunting in Venice. The A Haunting in Venice 2023 movie Vitale Portfoglio is played by Riccardo Scamarcio, best known for playing the villainous Santino D’Antonio in John Wick:

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A Haunting In Venice Story Details

As the A Haunting in Venice release date nears, the full details of the story are still under wraps. The A Haunting in Venice story is a little different than the other Poirot mysteries that Branagh has adapted for the big screen. Whereas most Poirot mysteries revolve around a single murder, Hallowe’en Party opens with two murders. Branagh is departing from the source material in his adaptation of Hallowe’en Party. Although Hallowe’en Party is set in a sleepy English village, Branagh has switched the setting to Venice. The séance at which the murder takes place in A Haunting in Venice doesn’t appear in Hallowe’en Party. However, the Poirot novel Dumb Witness features a séance, so it's likely A Haunting in Venice could draw inspiration from here too.

A Haunting In Venice Trailer

20th Century Studios has dropped a teaser trailer for A Haunting in Venice, revealing the star-studded cast and the setup of a murder at a séance. The mood of the trailer is much different from the previous movies, as it creates a powerful sense of dread. The trailer opens with Poirot arriving in a post-World War II Venice after having been retired for 10 years. The expert detective arrives at a spooky, decayed, and supposedly haunted palazzo, teasing a much more supernatural outing for Poirot than ever seen before. The Haunting in Venice 2023 movie trailer gets spookier when Poirot enters the palazzo and is welcomed by Tina Fey's Ariadne Oliver.

Ariadne tells Poirot that she's skeptical about psychics, an opinion that Poirot shares when the A Haunting in Venice story starts. However, that all changes following terrifying events during the séance, which completely contradicts their opinion. Hercule was originally there to expose the psychic, but the trailer suggests that the detective becomes gullible to the supernatural goings-on in the palazzo, as he's seemingly haunted by ghost children. As the A Haunting in Venice release date gets closer, another trailer will be released, but the current trailer does a great job of preparing audiences for a much different Hercule Poirot movie.