Jamie Lee Curtis Rumored as Top Choice for Angela Lansbury'sMurder, She WroteRole in Film Adaptation of Series: Report
Mar. 15, 2025Angela Lansbury as Jessica Fletcher onMurder, She Wrotecirca 1984; Jamie Lee Curtis at the 95th Academy Awards in Hollywood, California, on March 12, 2023.Photo:CBS/Getty; ABC/Getty
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Jamie Lee Curtis' newest role might have us looking for clues!
TheAcademy Awardwinner, 66, is reportedly the top choice for the Jessica Fletcher role in an upcomingMurder, She Wrotemovie adaptation, perDeadline, though no deal has been made yet.
The movie will be based on the classic mystery series starringAngela Lansburyas Jessica, which ran for 12 seasons on CBS from 1984 to 1996, according to the outlet.
Lauren Schuker Blum and Rebecca Angelo (Dumb Money) have been tapped to write the screenplay, while Lord Miller and Amy Pascal are slated to produce, Deadline reports.
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Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strong inHalloween(1978).Mary Evans/COMPASS INTERNATIONAL PICTURES/FALCON INTERNATIONAL PRODUC/Ronald Grant/Everett
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Curtis is no stranger to the thriller genre, having gotten her big-screen break in the 1978 slasherHalloweenand returned to several films in the franchise — most recently,David Gordon Green’s trilogy that concluded with 2022’sHalloween Ends.
Curtis also appeared in the horror-comedy seriesScream Queens, as well as in writer-directorRian Johnson’s hit 2019 murder mysteryKnives Out.
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Angela Lansbury asMurder, She Wrote’s Jessica Fletcher in Los Angeles on Jan. 1, 1990.CBS via Getty
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Screen and Broadway iconLansbury, who died in 2022 at age 96, told PEOPLE back in 1984 thatMurder, She Wroteco-creator Peter S. Fischer originally had a different actress in find to play Cabot Cove, Maine’s intrepid local sleuth:Jean Stapleton.
The actress, who was in her late 50s at the time, told PEOPLE she was drawn to the character of Jessica because she was a middle-aged woman who was “a vital and intelligent being.”
She added, “Attempting to bring off my own show is a great challenge. If I can do it, at the age of 59, it will be a small miracle. I felt that it would have been a gap in my acting experience if I had never done a television series. I wanted to play to that huge audience just once.”
source: people.com
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