Orient Express heads for a new murder

The Orient Express is about to depart on another murderous journey, after the Hollywood studio Fox picked up the screen rights to the classic Agatha Christie murder-mystery book. Murder on the Orient Express has already been made into a 1974 Oscar-nominated hit, and now Fox has lined up top producers Ridley Scott, Simon Kinberg and Mark Gordon to produce, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.

The project adapts Christie's 1934 novel, which featured detective Hercule Poirot investigating the murder of a passenger on a train from Istanbul.

The 1974 movie starred Albert Finney as Poirot and was nominated for six Oscar nominations, with Ingrid Bergman winning an Oscar for best supporting actress.

Scott is currently shooting Exodus, the story of Moses, for Fox, while Kinberg is involved with the X-Men franchise. Gordon has just announced he was developing a new Narnia movie, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair.