The Orient

He was forced to leave behind his barbershop, the Orient Salon, in Damascus following the outbreak of war in 2011.

"I always fancied doing something in real time, the technical challenge of it. If there was an attack on the rail network, could we then localise it on one train? And then suddenly we have a modern Murder on the Orient Express and a bit of Speed... and we make it completely up-to-date," he explains.

“When you’re doing Tom on the train from Cherbourg to Naples, and you pull up David Seymour’s photograph of Ingrid Bergman going from Naples to Cannes on the Orient Express, you know exactly what that train car looks like in black and white.”

The origins of the Orient Express, Trans-Siberian Railway, Hogwarts Express and Thomas The Tank Engine can be traced back to Trevithick's modest locomotive that is regarded by experts as the world's first railway engine.

Edmonds Driftwood Players sold out its fall 2023 run of “Murder on the Orient Express,” adapted by playwright Ken Ludwig from Agatha Christie’s original.