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Hilarious: Writer Rips ‘Orient Express’ For Lack Of Asians

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Hilarious: Writer Rips ‘Orient Express’ For Lack Of Asians

Rebecca Theodore, a film/TV contributor for Entertainment Weekly, Forbes, NYTimes, Roger Ebert, and The Urban Daily, according to her bio on Twitter, issued one of the silliest tweets about movies ever published:

Theodore was apparently complaining that there were no Asians in the cast of the remake of Murder on The Orient Express, which is based on Agatha Christie’s famous Hercule Poirot mystery thriller of the same name.

One problem; Murder on the Orient Express is the famous story of how (Spoiler alert!) twelve people colluded to murder the cold-blooded killer who kidnapped a child they all knew and loved. None of them were Asian. The great detective Poirot himself was Belgian.

Most importantly, the “Orient Express” of the title refers to the train in the book traveling from Istanbul to London.

Theodore’s blunder was mocked on Twitter:

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