Academy Award winner Penelope Cruz (Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Nine) is joining the all-star cast director Kenneth Branagh is assembling for 20th Century Fox‘s new feature film adaptation of Agatha Christie’s acclaimed mystery Murder on the Orient Express.
Murder on the Orient Express begins production in November in London.
In addition to directing the film, Branagh, a five-time Academy Award-nominee, will star as detective Hercule Poirot.
This will be her second teaming with Johnny Depp after 2011’s smash Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.