{"id":24270,"date":"2019-09-28T18:17:12","date_gmt":"2019-09-28T18:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dinnews.in\/?p=24270"},"modified":"2019-09-28T18:17:12","modified_gmt":"2019-09-28T18:17:12","slug":"ali-fazal-begins-prep-for-death-on-the-nile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/?p=24270","title":{"rendered":"Ali Fazal begins prep for &#8216;Death on The Nile&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify; background: white; margin: 0in -.2in 10.85pt -.2in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #383636; background: white;\">Ali Fazal has started preparing for his next Hollywood project, the big screen adaptation of Agatha Christie&#8217;s &#8220;Death on the Nile&#8221;, in which he stars along with Gal Gadot.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #383636;\"><br style=\"font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;\" \/> <span style=\"background: white;\">The film is a follow-up to 20th Century Fox&#8217;s 2017 blockbuster &#8220;Murder on the Orient Express&#8221;, also an adaptation of Christie&#8217;s novel of the same name.<\/span><\/span><br style=\"font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;\" \/> <span style=\"background: white;\"><span style=\"font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; word-spacing: 0px;\">Kenneth Branagh, who helmed the first part, will return to the director&#8217;s chair and reprise his role of Belgian detective Hercule Poirot.<\/span>The actor, who is currently in London ahead of the film&#8217;s shoot commencement, said he has been reading the novel and also watched the earlier movie adaptation of the book.<\/span>The 1978 movie starred Peter Ustinov as Poirot along with Bette Davis, Mia Farrow and Maggie Smith.<br style=\"font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;\" \/> <span style=\"background: white;\"><span style=\"font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; word-spacing: 0px;\">&#8220;I feel blessed because it&#8217;s (the film) in Sir Kenneth Brannagh&#8217;s hands. For me, the most essential prep is to get to know my costumes and my look for the film. Once that part is sorted, rest follows. So I&#8217;ve been focusing solely on that for the past one week since I landed here,&#8221; Ali said in a statement.<\/span>The actor, who has starred in Hollywood films such as &#8220;Furious 7&#8221; and &#8220;Victoria &amp; Abdul&#8221;, said there is a dialect coach on the sets to get the accents right.<\/span>&#8220;We have a dialect teacher on set for a bunch of us so we are being trained for the accents. I cannot reveal just yet what kind of accents only because I want that to be a surprise,&#8221; he added.&#8221;Death on the Nile&#8221; will chronicle Poirot&#8217;s vacation in Egypt where he discovers a murder on the banks of river Nile as a love triangle goes awry.Armie Hammer and Letitia Wright are a part of the cast.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ali Fazal has started preparing for his next Hollywood project, the big screen adaptation of Agatha Christie&#8217;s &#8220;Death on the Nile&#8221;, in which he stars along with Gal Gadot. The film is a follow-up to 20th Century Fox&#8217;s 2017 blockbuster &#8220;Murder on the Orient Express&#8221;, also an adaptation of Christie&#8217;s novel of the same name. Kenneth Branagh, who helmed the first part, will return to the director&#8217;s chair and reprise his role of Belgian detective Hercule Poirot.The actor, who is currently in London ahead of the film&#8217;s shoot commencement, said&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24272,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24270"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24274,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24270\/revisions\/24274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}