Jamie Lee Curtis to play Jessica Fletcher in 'Murder, She Wrote' movie

It's been almost 30 years since 'Murder, She Wrote' aired its last episode with Angela Lansbury as Jessica Fletcher. The series, one of the great police classics in history, will come back to life with a film in which this time the leading role will fall to Jamie Lee Curtis, who will play the investigator through Universal.

The actress will thus be the one to replace Angela Lansbury, who died in October 2022 at the age of 96. For Universal, as Deadline explains, Curtis is the most suitable option to succeed Lansbury as Jessica Fletcher, a role that gave so much joy to her millions of fans around the world.

'Murder, She Wrote' was on the air between 1984 and 1996 for no less than 12 seasons, with up to 41 Emmy Award nominations, although it barely managed to win two. At the moment, this film adaptation has not revealed more details, although it is expected to be as faithful as the series

What is 'Murder, She Wrote' about?

The fiction followed the steps of Jessica Fletcher, a retired teacher who sets out to write mystery novels and, thanks to this, she realizes her great gift for analyzing and solving all kinds of events. Thus, Fletcher ends up becoming a great researcher who gets to catch dozens of murderers throughout all the episodes of the series.

In 2013 there was already an attempt to rescue 'Murder, She Wrote', but Lansbury's harsh criticism scuppered everything: "I think it's a mistake to call it 'Murder, She Wrote' because the series will always be about Cabot Cove and its wonderful group of people who tell those lovely stories and enjoyed a piece of that place and also enjoyed Jessica Fletcher, who is a very unusual and individual kind of person. So I'm sorry that they have to use the title 'Murder, She Wrote', although they have every right to it and it's their right."