Jamie Lee-Curtis for “Murder, She Wrote”

As if Jessica Fletcher wasn’t annoying enough 🙄🙄😒😒

Someone make lobster stew out of r1!

She's the wrong kind of actor for that role. For Jessica Fletcher you want a consummate actress who's smart, eccentric, and fun.

Hi!

Bring back Angela!

R3, JLC is wrong because she doesn't suit the "Cozy Mystery" genre.

Her physical appearance, her sharp-angled face, precludes JLC from seeming a naive, maybe somewhat dithering, elderly woman who is of no threat to murderers in her midst.

Oh FUCK no.

This entire project makes no sense.

At least it's better than Billy Porter.

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I'll only watch if JLC is the first one murdered.

It should be Margot Martindale.

Um, nope. Terrible miscasting.

Great decision. Can't wait for JLC to bring her trannie kid on the show. I'll watch with glee just to see the anti-,trans trolls collective heads explode.

"Murder He/She Wrote."

Jessica Fletcher was calm, warm, classy, sensible.

JLC is sassy and broad and hectoring.

There’s no way she’ll be a retired English teacher from Maine in this one.

She’ll be a retired female marine who started her own vegan catering service only to leave it to focus on climate change. Her best friends will be a very capable woman of color, who happens to be her late wife’s sister, and a young, gender nonconforming, undocumented kid from Central America.

She will girlboss very close to the sun, but will always come out unscathed.

Her name is Jamie Lee Curtis, not Lee-Curtis.

Jessica Fletcher IS Jamie Lee Curtis!

I don't know her.

Viola should have been chosen. This is racist!

I am actually looking forward to it. As long as she doesn't play THE Jessica Fletcher her character can be whatever they want her to be. The concept of MSW is not that complex. Everybody can play the lead. More important to me is that they capture the essence. That's where I am a bit confused. MSW was always led by a homely spinster. So I am curious what they do with Curtis in the movie.

Lansbury was always so protective of the show and her character. IIRC she made some statements against a recast or even just a reboot of the show. I thought that was a little rich considering that the entire show was very openly a knock-off of Agatha Christie's Miss Marple.

Will she be a serial killer like Jessica Fletcher?

WHET the M,SW project with Octavia Spencer? She would’ve been a way better lead for this.

R22, Angela Lansbury’s Jessica Fletcher was neither homely nor a spinster.

Maybe they do it like the Matlock revival where the title was really just a ruse for something different, not even in the same story universe.

This is going to be good. I hear they cast Chuck Norris as Dr. Seth Hazlitt.

I would cast Paul as 'Jesse Fletcher'.

I'm hanging on for a revival of the Snoop Sisters with Glenn and Meryl.

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Jessica Fletchim.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

She’s set to play Kay Scarpetta’s sister Dorothy in the Amazon Prime series Scarpetta. Nicole Kidman plays Kay and both actresses are co-producers.

Is it going to be all JLC all of the time?

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The last ten minutes when Jessica solves the crime will always begin her saying, "How Dare You!!!"

Octavia or Olivia Colman would be good in this.

If she weren't already doing Murd...er, Matlock on tv, I would have said that Kathy Bates would have been perfect in a "Murder, She Wrote" movie.

Me, too, R37. Kathy could act circles around JLC in that part.

If they're considering JLC, I'm betting that the movie will have Jessica Fletcher be a much more ass-kicking than sweet old lady.

It'll be old lady girl-power with her beating up the bad guys.

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[quote]It'll be old lady girl-power with her beating up the bad guys.

With her cock. Her nasty, hairy cock.

Elsbeth reminds me slightly of Jessica Fletcher. Eccentric main character who’s always underestimated, and the show has guest stars that rotate as the murderer.

I actually think drew barrymore could do it in 20 years

Five posts and a “Murder, She Wrote” thread is a Trump thread. Kudos to you girlfriend.

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When will they stop shoving this she-male down our throats?

I liked her in A Fish Called Wanda. That's about it.

R12, Margo Martindale may be playing another famous TV detective in a year or two. I can't say more (someone I know is working on getting a show produced and wants her for the role, but it's not my story to tell). I think that if it comes to pass, you'll like it.

(This person is already successful in the business, so it's not like it's just some rando's pipe dream.)

I hope Alok Vaid-Menon will be her sidekick.