By Oscar winner Jamie Lee Curtis has reportedly emerged as the top choice to star in a film adaptation of the iconic CBS whodunnit series “Murder, She Wrote” at Universal Pictures.
“Dumb Money” scribes Lauren Schuker Blum and Rebecca have reportedly penned the script while Lord Miller and Amy Pascal will produce
Curtis would take on the role made famous by Angela Lansbury, a character that was essentially a 1980s American spin on Agatha Christie’s famed Miss Marple character. Jessica ‘J.B.’ Fletcher was a middle-aged widow and retired schoolteacher turned successful author of detective fiction who resided in the sleepy town of Cabot Cove.
She sported a seemingly endless collection of relatives and friends, and traveled extensively. In each episode she would solve at least one murder (sometimes several) after the police prove incapable of doing so.
The series ran twelve seasons from 1984 through to 1996, and was followed by several telemovies with the last airing in 2003. It remains one of the most successful and longest-running television shows in history. At its height, it pulled in up to 23 million viewers a week, and was a massive global success.
Oscar winner Curtis currently stars alongside Pamela Anderson in the Gia Coppola-directed Vegas drama “The Last Showgirl” and won an Emmy for her arc in “The Bear”.
She’s currently in Amazon Prime Video’s dark comedy “The Sticky,” has “Freakier Friday” opening in cinemas next year, and will soon star with Nicole Kidman in the TV series adaptation of Patricia Cornwell’s Kay Scarpetta books.
Source: Deadline
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