It's been done to death. He might have better box-office success with a lesser known Poirot mystery. They've already all been done in television movies, but a splashy big screen adaptation of Mysterious Affair at Styles or Hercule Poirot's Christmas might have a better chance at success as they...
Well, since he concocted his own reason for having such a gargantuan mustache (definitely not Christie's idea) and then shaved it in what appeared to be a wooing of a blues singer (also not in Christie), is he even going to grow it back?
I watched it tonight and felt just the opposite about the watchability of his two Christie adaptations. Though I despised the way the story had been tinkered with, characters changed, etc., I still found Death on the Nile the more interesting movie mystery than Murder on the Orient Express...