“Believer” probably works as a musical choice for Murder on the Orient Express, but it still strikes as an odd choice nevertheless.
Even the title of Murder on the Orient Express conjures up a pretty specific aesthetic. It’s Agatha Christie, the early ’30s, and has Hercule Poirot.
Oddly enough, the new trailer (with a tip of the hat to Variety) keeps the aesthetic, but it then throws out Imagine Dragons of all bands instead of the perhaps more-expected clarinets or dramatic instrumental music.
The cast includes Daisy Ridley of Star Wars fame, Hamilton‘s Leslie Odom Jr., Josh Gad from Frozen (or The Book of Mormon or Beauty and the Beast depending on your fandom sensibilities), Kenneth Branagh from Harry Potter, Emily Blunt from The Girl on the Train, and Dame Judi Dench, who needs no other introduction.
What we’re saying here is that if 20th Century Fox is trying to pull in that millennial demographic, it probably did so with the cast alone. Odom, Branagh, Gad, and Ridley alone have ties to four rather large fandoms. Imagine Dragons is probably just a bonus.
(As an aside, what, exactly, are we supposed to believe in? That Poirot is, as he says, “probably the greatest detective in the world”? Is this supposed to throw shade at the Sherlock Holmes fandom, even though the two detectives really don’t overlap? We’re probably reading too much into it.)
Murder on the Orient Express, as you may expect, sees Hercule Poirot having to solve a murder on a train. Branagh may not be David Suchet, but we can’t complain about the mustache. Christie’s detective always did take pride in his facial hair.
Since Murder will roll into theaters November 10, you can use it to get your fix of Daisy Ridley ahead of Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Now that’s something to believe in.