MICHAEL GREEN IS the screenwriter behind all three of Kenneth Branagh’s Hercule Poirot movies, including the latest, the wild and wickedly entertaining tonal shift that is the supernaturally flecked A Haunting In Venice. Inspired by Agatha Christie’s lesser-known Hallowe’en Party, Green almost completely overhauled the source material, taking a quaint English mystery about a murder on Halloween and turning it into a deeply creepy quasi-ghost story that tests Poirot to his limits. It also allowed Green to round up some unusual suspects. Here, he talks us through his key characters…
HERCULE POIROT