Jamie Lee Curtis confirms a ‘Murder, She Wrote' reboot: ‘It's happening'
Jamie Lee Curtis has confirmed that she will star in a 'Murder, She Wrote' reboot.
'Oh, it's… happening,' Curtis told Entertainment Tonight.
'We're a minute away, but yeah, [I'm] very excited. Very excited,' the 'Halloween' actress, 66, added. 'But I'm tamping down my enthusiasm until we start shooting. I have a couple of other things to hustle, but then I'll get to enjoy that work.'
7 Jamie Lee Curtis attends the 'Freakier Friday' LA premiere on July 22, 2025.
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7 Angela Lansbury in 'Murder, She Wrote.'
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The Oscar-winning actress will play the iconic mystery writer and amateur sleuth role, Jessica Fletcher, who was originally played by Angela Lansbury.
The original 'Murder, She Wrote' ran on CBS for 12 seasons from 1984 to 1996.
Lansbury died at age 96 in 2022.
''Murder, She Wrote' has given me more worldwide attention than any other role I played in the movies or on the stage,' she said in 2013 while receiving an honorary Oscar. 'It's a wonderful thing to be known in Spain, Portugal, in Paris, in France and Germany and everywhere.'
The original show was set in the quaint town of Cabot Cove, Maine.
7 Angela Lansbury in 'Murder, She Wrote.'
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7 George Maharis, Angela Lansbury and Chad Everett in a 1990 episode of 'Murder, She Wrote.'
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7 Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan at the 'Freakier Friday' movie premiere in Mexico on July 24, 2025.
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Jessica Fletcher was a retired schoolteacher-turned mystery writer and amateur sleuth, who had a knack for solving murders in real life.
The reboot movie starring the 'Haunted Mansion' actress was first reported in December.
It will be a film written by Lauren Schuker Blum and Rebecca Angelo.
Curtis has enjoyed a career resurgence lately, as she reprised her 'Halloween' role in the 2018 movie, won an Oscar in 2023 (in the 'best supporting actress' category for 'Everything Everywhere All At Once') and she's in the buzzy Hulu show, 'The Bear.'
She's also set to reprise her modern classic 'Freaky Friday' role in the upcoming sequel, 'Freakier Friday,' premiering Aug. 8.
7 Jamie Lee Curtis at the premiere for 'Freakier Friday' in LA on July 22, 2025.
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7 Angela Lansbury in 'Murder, She Wrote.'
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Lansbury got a slew of Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for the role, and reprised the role in four TV movies, in addition to the show.
On 'Murder, She Wrote,' behind the scenes, Lansbury was known for helping hire older actors in guest roles, who had dwindling careers and needed work in order to qualify for their Screen Actors Guild medical/dental benefits.
Randall Bosley, a former extra from 'Murder, She Wrote' told the LA Times in 2023 about an incident when Lansbury passed the Craft Services table on set, and saw a paltry offering of only chips, coffee, and water.
Bosley recalled that Lansbury said, 'This is unacceptable. I want my people well taken care of. I'm going back to my trailer and I'm not coming back until this table is properly stocked with nourishing food and drink for everyone.'
Bosley said, 'Soon thereafter the craft service table was filled with the most wonderful array of food and drink. It became well known among people doing extra work that this was a show you really wanted to work on.'
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