Jamie Lee Curtis is Common’s first option to play Angela Lansbury’s Jessica Fletcher in a Homicide, She Wrote film.
Common is trying to Jamie Lee Curtis (True Lies, Borderlands, Buying and selling Locations) to choose up the place Angela Lansbury left off for the studio’s Homicide, She Wrote film. There’s no deal but, however Curtis is the studio’s best choice to play Jessica Fletcher in a movie primarily based on the 12-season CBS sequence.
The script is by Dumb Cash scribes Lauren Schuker Blum and Rebecca Angelo, and Lord Miller and Amy Pascal are producing it. Plans to scope out a Homicide, She Wrote movie come at a time when whodunit tales are making a killer comeback. Rian Johnson’s Knives Out Mysteries sequence is a smash hit with audiences. On the identical time, different titles like Netflix’s Enola Holmes, starring Millie Bobby Brown because the youthful sister of Sherlock Holmes (Henry Cavill), and Kenneth Branagh’s revival of Hercule Poirot (Homicide on the Orient Specific, Demise on the Nile, A Haunting in Venice) are nice additions to the style’s choices.
Angela Lansbury performed Jessica Fletcher in Homicide, She Wrote from 1984 to 1996. Within the long-running, fan-favorite sequence, Fletcher is a retired schoolteacher turned thriller author adept at fixing real-world mysteries. The present garnered 41 Emmy nominations, with Lansbury a staple of the annual celebration for her function. She by no means received an award for her half within the present, however followers nonetheless carry a candle for Lansbury and her portrayal of Jessica Fletcher.
Jamie Lee Curtis is an impressed, if not apparent, choose to play Jessica in a Homicide, She Wrote film. Curtis has the uncanny means to slide into any function, and imagining her as a thriller author turned super-sleuth can be a improbable addition to her elongated checklist of roles. Curtis stars alongside Pamela Anderson within the newly-released drama The Final Showgirl and as Boo Radley in The Sticky, sharing what occurs when Ruth Landry (Margo Martindale), a maple syrup farmer, finds her livelihood underneath assault by grasping rivals who had been as soon as her pals. To not be outdone, she concocts a scheme to actual revenge and shake up the business.
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