Jamie Lee Curtis higher bust out the doilies and contempo informal trench coats — it appears she’s headed to “Murder, She Wrote.”
Variety has confirmed that Oscar winner Curtis is in early talks to play the long-lasting Jessica Fletcher, a criminal offense author turned crack detective, who was on the heart of the long-running authentic TV sequence that starred Angela Lansbury.
Universal Pictures is placing collectively an untitled function movie venture collectively round Fletcher, through producers Phil Lord, Chris Miller and Amy Pascal (all have total offers on the Donna Langley-run studio lot).
Early ideas across the character and any premise are at the moment unknown. The script is from Lauren Schuker Blum and Rebecca Angelo (who penned “Dumb Money,” the GameStop inventory scandal story which grew to become a function at Sony beneath Craig Gillespie).
Representatives for Curtis and Universal had no quick touch upon the matter.
Universal Television produced “Murder, She Wrote” which ran for 12 seasons beginning in 1984. Lansbury grew to become a family title due to her portrayal of an uncommon gumshoe, typically in perilous conditions however all the time well mannered and clutching a wise purse. The sequence peaked at a reported 40 million viewers every week, and nonetheless averaged round 25 million per episode by the top of its run.
It’s been almost two years since Curtis nabbed the Academy Award for greatest supporting actress for her efficiency in “Everything Everywhere All at Once.” She’s at the moment on the awards circuit for “The Last Showgirl,” Gia Coppola’s ode to the light glamour ladies of the Las Vegas strip. She’ll subsequent seem in James L. Brooks’ “Ella McKay.”
Deadline first reported the information of the Curtis talks.