Hollywood legend set to star in Murder, She Wrote movie reboot
dailyrecord.co.ukOscar winner Jamie Lee Curtis is set to play Jessica Fletcher in a movie reboot version of Murder, She Wrote.The popular 1980s television series originally starred Angela Lansbury as a bestselling author turned sleuth who solves a series of murders.The show ran for a staggering 264 episodes and four TV movies.Curtis, whose parents were acting royalty Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh, is top choice to star in the film version.The hit series that ran for 12 seasons on CBS will be made by the people who wrote Dumb Money about the GameStop short squeeze in 2001.
Whodunit movies are hot right now, following on from the success of the likes of Knives Out with Daniel Craig and Kenneth Branagh’s glossy Hercule Poirot mysteries, including Murder On The Orient Express .
Curtis, 66, became a scream Queen thanks to Halloween back in the 80s but continues to work regularly on screen. Recently she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for 2022’s multiverse film comedy Everything, Everywhere, All At Once.She is currently starring alongside Pamela Anderson in the Gia Coppola-directed Vegas drama The Last Showgirl.
She won a recent Emmy for her role in The Bear, and also stars alongside Margo Martindale on Prime Video’s dark comedy The Sticky, which she exec produces alongside Jason Blum.
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