Universal’s ‘Murder, She Wrote’ Movie With Jamie Lee Curtis Heads To Early 2028

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UPDATE: Universal’s Murder, She Wrote movie based connected nan classical TV show will now spell connected Feb 4, 2028 alternatively of Dec. 22, 2027. Essentially, nan workplace believes this is simply a amended day for nan playability of this type of movie alternatively of Christmas. There aren’t immoderate different awesome workplace titles connected Murder, She Wrote‘s caller date.

The pic moves distant from a 2027 Christmas filled pinch Disney/Marvel Studios’ Avengers: Secret Wars, Lionsgate’s The Housemaid’s Secret, New Line’s Lord of nan Rings: The Hunt for Gollum, Warner Bros untitled Nancy Meyers movie and Sony Animation’s Buds.

PREVIOUS, March 25: Universal Pictures has locked successful a merchandise day for their Murder, She Wrote movie starring Jamie Lee Curtis.

The movie will spell wide up of Christmas connected Wednesday, December 22, 2027. The only different title presently group for that day is Buds, Sony Pictures Animation’s follow-up to their caller hit, GOAT. Tentpoles The Lord of nan Rings: The Hunt for Gollum and Avengers: Secret Wars are scheduled to spell caput to caput 1 week earlier, connected December 17, pinch Nancy Meyers’ caller rom-com for Warner Bros. to travel connected Christmas Day.

Universal’s adjustment of nan Emmy-winning Murder, She Wrote has Jason Moore attached to direct. Dumb Money‘s Lauren Schuker Blum and Rebecca Angelo wrote nan script. We were first to study connected Curtis being eyed to prima backmost successful December 2024.

Plot specifications for nan characteristic return are nether wraps. The movie will beryllium produced by Amy Pascal and Phil Lord, Chris Miller and Aditya Sood done Lord Miller’s first‑look woody pinch Universal Pictures — caller disconnected occurrence pinch their Amazon MGM sci-fi pic Project Hail Mary, which has grossed complete $147M worldwide astatine clip of reporting.

An iconic crime play bid produced by Universal Television, which ran connected CBS for 12 seasons from 1984-1996, Murder, She Wrote starred Angela Lansbury arsenic Jessica Fletcher, a retired schoolteacher turned successful enigma writer, who proves to person an uncanny knack for solving real-life murders. The show was chiefly group successful nan seaside municipality of Cabot Cove, Maine, though Jessica would often recreation to different locales arsenic cases unfolded.

A Sunday nighttime staple, nan bid was nominated for 41 Emmys pinch Lansbury nominated each twelvemonth it ran, though she ne'er won. She later reprised nan domiciled done 4 telepics.

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