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UPDATE: Jennifer Garner will be the actress who puts a young spin on Miss Marple in Disney’s reboot of the Agatha Christie mystery series sleuth. The character had been portrayed by a long line of actresses who played Marple as an elderly spinster who cracked crimes in her spare time. Garner and her Vandalia Films partner Juliana Janes will produce a film that will be shaped as a star vehicle for Garner, the former Alias star who will next be seen in Arthur.
EARLIER, 3:46 PM EDT: Disney has made a deal to revive the Agatha Christie mystery series staple character Miss Marple, but with one big difference: instead of the elderly spinster who lives in the English village of St. Mary Mead and solves mysteries as a hobby, the new configuration is for Mark Frost to script a version where Marple is in her 30s or 40s. Developing.
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This sucks. Why not make Hercule Poirrot from Baltimore and he works at Red Lobster
John Waters would make a great Poirrot. You should register that with WGA.
This idea is sick. Hire a great actress like Helen Mirren for the role.
Rich Ross will soon redo Mickey Mouse and Cinderella into a Zack Snyder cluster fuck film starring Arnold and Mel produced by Bruckheimer…because that’s what great creative minds at Disney now do.
Call it “Miss Marble” and make her big, round and fat.
Or, “Ms. Marple,” and she’s an HR director at a large company doggedly pursuing corporate woman-haters. (HR is an underused story arena.)
Or, “Mr. Marple,” in which a post-op drag-king solves “miss”-teries.
Or, … oh, gee, there are so many possibilities and so much lame stupidity. When is the last time anyone read a Miss Marple mystery anyway? Do I smell another Mars Needs Moms? Or is it… “Marple Needs Moms”? Hmmm…
The Agatha Christie estate Chorion Ltd. surly doesn’t care about the authors work & integrity. They want money (pounds) and Disney sure is gonna pay – for a a cockamamie idea. I can only image the Disney Executive watching classics movies and thinking “Gee, couldn’t we remake these.” “Well, we have to get rid of the old woman.” “No problem. The author is dead.” “Great idea. A new stylish Miss Marple in her 30s… what’s Sandra Bullock doing? – oh no she’s too old. What about …. bla bla bla…
Painfully stupid idea!
Oh no worries, Mark Frost is the writer…..
Mark Frost is very good at Victoriana/steampunk/olde-school BOYS’ OWN thriller material. But this idea is so awful (especially in terms of casting) even he won’t be able to do much with it.
Uh-hem…cough.
So we will end up with Jessica Alba as Miss Maple, the retired stripper who solves crime in the future with the help of her jive talking sidekick… who is a talking pie!
Disney is going to do a remake of THE BOATNIKS next, but with no boats.
it’s jen garner, people, it’s exciting news, she can do no wrong.
LOL! (Oh, wait, that was meant to be sarcastic, right?)
This is simply horrifying. Agatha is spinning in her grave. I wanna cry.
Stuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuupid!
My favorite line: “The character had been portrayed by a long line of actresses who played Marple as an elderly spinster who cracked crimes in her spare time.”
As if they had chosen to “interpret” the role as an elderly lady in earlier incarnations.
Like she hadn’t been written “elderly” in so many novels originally….
April Fools is friday
Oh, stop. Miss Marple’s age doesn’t really matter at all–she’s just an observant single woman with a keen insight into people. I presume the character wasn’t BORN old.
Agatha Christie herself enjoyed writing stories about her elderly spy characters, Tommy and Tuppence, when they were young.
It’s just entertainment.
I’m so tired of the excuse that “it’s just entertainment”. It’s why movies suck today. If people tried harder, maybe I’d spend more money going to see new movies than buying Blu-Rays of old ones.
For every “Social Network,” made with care and intelligence, there are ten pieces of “entertainment” that look like embarrassments to all involved.
Yes, her age and her small-town British background are integral to her character. Without those aspects, there’s really nothing left.
Uh … not quite right. Tommy and Tuppence were young when Christie started their stories (1920ish). Christie just aged them as she continued writing about them over the years. She never went back and revisited their youth after she had aged them into middle-age and seniority. That wasn’t an option for Poirot and Marple, who were created old (or oldish, in Poirot’s case), and couldn’t be aged much (although Poirot was for his final novel).
Thank god we won’t have to see any mature actresses hogging up all the good parts. It’s sad how young actresses get overlooked all the time.
On behalf of the millions of women in the U.S.(not to mention around the world),who are over 60, I can’t believe Miss Marple has now regressed back to a woman is her thirties who hasn’t gone thru menopause!!! I love Jennifer Garner but this is not the role for her…she might as well be Nancy Drew.
What pea-brained male came up with this idea? Miss Marple has been an iconic figure in British mysteries for over 50 years. I think a lot of people would like to see an older/elderly woman with a mind like a steel trap!! Don’t studio people understand demographics????? The population is the USA is getting greyer every year and we love our British protaganists!!!!!
OMG…WHAT HAVE YOU DONE…!!!!!!!!
I am about to vomit! Does Dinsey need to ruin everything?
I think you may have just hit on their long-term business plan.
Then Bieber as ‘Columbo!’
Which seat should I take?
MISS MARPLE, THE EARLY YEARS…
Hey! Cast Hailee Steinfeld and why not let’s call it LITTLE MISS MARPLE!
The franchise could run for 50 years until Marple is the right age…
“Little Miss Marple”
That actually made me LOL…
Jennifer Garner would make a great Kinsey Millhone from the Sue Grafton alphabet mysteries series.
This is going to go down as one of the worst eras in Disney history… WORST …
Jennifer should do a feature version of Alias it was her best role and it’s a much better idea than doing this movie.
this is a retarded idea.
I like Jennifer Garner, but first Elektra and now this? Why does she keep going along with being blatantly miscast? I mean, five years of Alias money (and, okay, simply being married to Ben Affleck) shouldn’t make her this desperate to take on such obviously ill-fitting roles.