You may already know that Ken Branagh is gearing up to make a new cinematic version of Agatha Christie's Murder On The Orient Express, in which he'll play the central role of detective Hercule Poirot. He's angling to have Angelina Jolie join the film.
Blade Runner 2's Michael Green wrote the new adaptation of the story that was first published in 1934. The mystery sees Poirot exercising the little grey cells over the murder of an American tycoon on a journey from Istanbul (Constantinople at the time) to Paris. The train is stuck in a terrible snowstorm and everyone on board the packed carriages becomes a suspect. The idea that the film's setting will be changed to a stranded Southern Rail train and that everyone becomes murderous because of the terrible service remains strictly in our heads.
If she does sign on, Jolie promises to be the first of an all-star cast that the director/star will gather, and the pace is clearly picking up on this one. Jolie most recently pulled off her own directing/starring gig with By The Sea and is editing her latest film, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers, which has Cambodian author and human rights activist Loung Ung recounting the horrors she suffered under the rule of the Khmer Rouge.