'Sleuth' reimagination shows imagination

October 17, 2007 In the case of "Sleuth," directed by Kenneth Branagh and adapted to the screen by Harold Pinter from Anthony Shaffer's play, the imaginations in question have generated their own unique take on the material behind the 1972 film directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz ("All About Eve") and adapted by Shaffer. The Sony Pictures Classics and Castle Rock Entertainment presentation of a Riff Raff and Timnick Films production, is produced by Jude Law, Simon Halfon, Tom Sternberg, Marion Pilowksy, Kenneth Branagh and Simon Moseley. For some insights into making the thriller, which opened in New York and Los Angeles last Friday, rolls out this month and goes wider in early November, I was happy to catch up recently with Kenneth Branagh, with whom I've greatly enjoyed talking about filmmaking in the past.

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