Last year, Reported deadline The Oscar winner Jamie Lee Curtis prepared to fill the late legend Angela LansburyS shoes in a new version of “Murder, she wrote,” the beloved 80s and “90s series that saw mystery writer Jessica Fletcher (Lansbury) who tracked down murderers (more than 250 of them, actually) in the sleepy Maine Hamlet by Cabot Cove, as well as in her universal trotting (Council Trans.
At the premiere “Freakier Friday” Curtis confirmed to entertainment each week That the project is still on the way, in a dramatic way: “Oh, it’s …”, uses pregnant breaks and dramatic facial expressions, “hands.”
“We’re a minute away. But yes, very excited, very excited. But I am, you know, tamping down my enthusiasm until we start shooting, “she added.” I have a few other things to stress and then, then I get to enjoy that work. “
This is not the first attempt to redo the long -lasting series. Over a decade ago, A restart was planned With Octavia Spencer, but it didn’t go off the ground. Lansbury was still there at that time and was not a fan of the idea. “I think it’s a mistake to call it” murder, she wrote, “” Lansbury told Variety at that time. “Because” murder, she wrote “will always be about a Cabot Cove and this wonderful little group of people who told the wonderful stories and liked a piece of that place, and also liked Jessica Fletcher, which is a rare and very individual type of person … So I’m sorry they have to use the title” Murder, she wrote: “Even if they have access to it.
The Honorary recipient – Who played in classics that stretched from “Gaslight” to “Beauty and the beast” – added that she liked Spencer’s work. “I saw her in ‘The Help’ and thought she was absolutely wonderful, a lovely actress … So I wish her well, but I wish it wasn’t in ‘murder, she wrote.’
How she would have felt that Curtis takes on a new version of the project is someone’s guess, like Lansbury died at the age of 96 2022But the actress has a very interesting connection to the original series-and it is a connection that shines a light on exactly what made the original CBS series successful for running for 12 seasons and four follow-up TV Movies.
In season 4, section 11, none other than Janet Leigh Guest stars-like in the Oscar-nominated actress from “Psycho,” “Touch of Evil”, “Bye bye Birdie,” “The Naked Spur”, and one of the “little women.” And Leigh, as a movie Trivia fans and followers of Curti’s Instagram know, was Curti’s mom.
Her appearance, while a starry for the series, was far from the only one of its kind. The secret sauce of ”Murder she wrote“Was its high -driven guest stars. Anyone who was any (and still lived) from Hollywood’s golden age showed up on the show – often several times as several characters. You understand, back on those days it wasn’t Keen eyes “and just like that” viewers Points out inconsistencies from section to section. Separate an actor with a couple of seasons, and everyone has forgotten that they were ever there.
Among some of the larger classic names to emerge were Leslie Nielsen, Cyd Charisse, Dorothy Lamor, Van Johnson, June Allyson, Kathryn Grayson, Jane Greer, Adam West, Rue McClanahan and Jessica Walter. Then of course there was the “before they were famous” variety, including Joaquin Phoenix, Megan Mullally, George Clooney, Bryan Cranston and Courteney Cox.
Leigh made only one guest site – in a section that also included “The Facts of Life” star Charlotte Rae. I decided to check it out – honestly there is never a reason not To turn on “murder, she wrote.” It’s not that modern. The stimulation is a little slower. But it feels cozy, even with all the murder. The snug and insured charm of Lansbury is contagious.
And somehow Curtis feels like a worthy successor. With Lansbury away – and the ability to her Jessica Fletcher returns completely from the questions – it’s easy to see why can now be the right time. Curtis has also proven to be a good fit for the murder mystery genre, With her excellent performance In “Knives outside.”
It’s a shame, honestly, that we never got to see how Octavia Spencer’s version may have turned out. There are probably some variants of this that can work. But in some way, 2025, more than 2013, feels like a year desperate in need of comfort show. There is something so terribly enticing about a procedure with an unlikely protagonist in Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple (like Lansbury, temporarily, are also played on screen).
Just imagine it: Curtis starts a pair of glasses, takes out a typewriter – which I suppose her character sticks to aesthetic inspiration – and drops out a novel based on the crime she solved earlier that day, between Tea Time and a Doll Dinner party. This is the type of series BBC pumps out into lots. Our 40-year-old American counterpart keeps largely not giving it a new spin?
Janet Leigh section, Smart title “Doom with a view,” Finds Jessica who visits an exclusive hotel in New York City there – get this – a murder happens. What?! Surprise, surprise! It contains Jessica Quips who – in response to a character that says “if she is crazy, I am also” – “That’s exactly what the tables said about their daughter Lizzie.”
And then … get this … without security detail or the police backup, Jessica just confront the killer in the end everyone kindly and basically says: “You did it. Now fess up.” Then explain in detail to him how he did it, while he just breathes slightly heavier and listens. In some sections she does the same thing while the killer has her on weapons. The girl has all the cold.
Now tell me that this is not Jamie Lee Curtis. We needs the.
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