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Rebecca Rubin
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Leon Bennett/Getty Images for Disney “Murder, She Wrote” a reboot of the beloved crime drama, will land in theaters next Christmas. Universal Pictures has slated the film to open on Dec. 22, 2027.
Jamie Lee Curtis is starring in “Murder, She wrote” as the iconic crime writer and amateur sleuth known as Jessica Fletcher, who was memorably portrayed by Angela Lansbury in the original TV series. Plot details for the upcoming movie haven’t been revealed, but the show — which ran for 12 seasons from 1984 to 1996 — centered around Fletcher’s knack for solving murders in the fictional, quaint town of Cabot Cove, Maine.
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