Jamie Lee Curtis is able to remedy some murders because the Oscar-winning actress confirms she will probably be starring within the much-anticipated Homicide, She Wrote reboot.
Talking to Leisure Tonight on the purple carpet world premiere of Freakier Friday on Thursday (July 24), Curtis was requested if there was any fact to Deadline‘s report that Common was engaged on a reboot of the beloved Angela Lansbury-starring crime sequence.
“Oh, it’s taking place,” Curtis confirmed. “We’re a minute away, however yeah, [I’m] very excited. Very excited. However I’m tamping down my enthusiasm till we begin capturing. I’ve a few different issues to hustle, however then I’ll get to get pleasure from that work.”
Curtis has been extraordinarily busy recently. Along with reprising her function as Tess Coleman within the Freaky Friday sequel, she’s additionally set to star in James L. Brooks’s upcoming movie Ella McCay and can star in and produce the Prime Video sequence Scarpetta alongside Nicole Kidman.
In December, Deadline‘s The Dish first reported that Curtis was in talks to take over the function of Jessica Fletcher, the middle-aged thriller author and beginner sleuth made well-known by Lansbury on the unique CBS sequence that aired for 12 seasons between 1984 and 1996. Lansbury died in her sleep simply 5 days earlier than her 97th birthday on October 11, 2022.
The unique sequence, created by Peter S. Fischer, Richard Levinson, and William Hyperlink, turned some of the fashionable reveals on tv, averaging 30 million viewers per week on the top of its reputation, based on the LA Occasions. Lansbury additionally earned 12 Emmy nominations for Excellent Lead Actress in a Drama Sequence.
This isn’t the primary time a Homicide, She Wrote reboot has been within the works. In October 2013, Deadline reported that NBC was planning to revive the sequence with Octavia Spencer within the lead function, taking part in a “hospital administrator and beginner sleuth who self-publishes her first thriller novel.”
On the time, Lansbury informed the Related Press, “I feel it’s a mistake to name it Homicide, She Wrote, as a result of Homicide, She Wrote will at all times be a couple of Cabot Cove and this excellent little group of people that informed these beautiful tales and loved a chunk of that place, and in addition loved Jessica Fletcher, who’s a uncommon and really particular person form of individual.”
Producers later determined Spencer’s character wouldn’t be named Jessica Fletcher. Nevertheless, earlier than the mission moved any additional, on January 21, 2014, it was reported that the reboot wouldn’t be going ahead.