Death on the Nile director Kenneth Branagh wants to create a "Christie-Verse" of films based on characters created by beloved mystery novelist Agatha Christie.

In an interview with AMC about Death on the Nile, based on the 1973 Christie novel of the same name, Branagh discussed the possibility of launching a "movie universe" based on the author's characters, particularly the amateur detective Miss Marple. "That'd be fun. You might've just started the Christie-Verse, right there," Branagh said. "I'd love to see Marple in a movie universe, I really would. She's a brilliant, brilliant detective. I mean, not officially a detective, she's a brilliant sleuth."

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As well as directing, Branagh stars in Death on the Nile as the fictional detective Hercule Poirot, one of Christie's most famous characters, who has appeared across 33 novels, two plays and over 50 short stories. "As I've been researching Poirot, I've read many, many, many of the Marples," said Branagh. "And, it's this other quality of being able, because of what people think they know about her, to be a detective, therefore, who can disappear, who can be invisible."

He continued, "When people ignore you, it's a terrific plus if you're solving a crime. That means you have an advantage and you can see them in ways that they don't even realize you're observing. So Marple, like, wouldn't it be great to put them together. I think that'd be, that'd be fun." Like Poirot, Miss Marple is one of Christie's more well-known characters. However, the author made sure the two detectives never crossed paths in any of her novels.

Depicted as an elderly spinster, Marple first appeared in the 1927 short story titled "The Tuesday Night Club," which would become the first chapter in Christie's short story collection The Thirteen Problems, published in 1932. While Christie wrote countless short stories about the sleuth, Miss Marple also starred in a series of novels known as the Miss Marple series, which spans 12 books written between 1930 and 1976.

As for television and film, the character has been portrayed on screen many times by actors like Angela Lansbury, Helen Hayes and Margaret Rutherford. Marple appeared in an ITV series titled Agatha Christie's Marple that ran from 2004 to 2014, where she was portrayed by Geraldine McEwan and, later, Julia McKenzie. Joan Hickson also starred as the elderly sleuth in a series of TV movie adaptations of all 12 novels that aired on The BBC.

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Death on the Nile is now playing in theaters.

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