Jennifer Garner has signed on to play legendary detective Miss Marple in a new movie inspired by Agatha Christie’s novels.
Which either means the 38-year-old actress is going to receive a very wrinkly, very expensive Benjamin Button-style make-over, or the producers are looking to sex Miss Marple up. A lot.
THR note that Disney Pictures are looking to “modernise” the elderly detective instead of going for the tried and true period approach.
Which clearly means Marple is now going to be a New York singleton who fights crime on the days when she's not dreaming about finding the love of her life and attending yoga classes.
Keeping in line with all the weirdness, Disney have already hired a scribe in the form of Twin Peaks’ Mark Frost. Next they’ll be saying a dancing dwarf and a prophetic giant have to be in the story.
Miss Marple’s adventures began in Agatha Christie’s novel The Thirteen Problems, published in novel form in 1930. Since then she’s been the subject of numerous TV and stage productions.
Source: THR
Marple? Or madness? Outraged that our beloved heroine is getting a complete make-over? Drop your comments below...
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nacho316
Mar 29th 2011, 11:16
Wow that's like having Sean William Scott play inspector Poirot........RETARDED she's got more of a chance playing Dumbo in the remake with those lugs lol
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Hadouken76
Mar 29th 2011, 12:04
Read this and heard Palmer from 'The Thing'
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KingofSpain
Mar 29th 2011, 12:31
I think she'll be really good in this role. She's a very prim and polite kind of actor and she's only gone for the rom-com roles to make a name for herself. See Juno for the real Garner. Tie her hair back and take off the slap and there you go.
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AbAeterno
Mar 29th 2011, 12:56
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat. The f**k.
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murta101
Mar 29th 2011, 15:52
Hold the phone. Is this an April Fool? Cos it IS only 3 days away, so if there are any more of the crazy announcements, I'm gonna get rather suspicious.
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lonea
Mar 29th 2011, 15:55
I love how BBC renewed Sherlock Holmes in the tv-series Sherlock, but this seems a bit extreme. I am a bit skeptical about it not being British as well as Miss Marple being played by Jennifer Garner. But who knows, it might just turn out great.
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Chufferstud
Mar 29th 2011, 15:56
That sound you can hear is a poor Agatha turning in her grave! I'm sure Helen Mirren would be great, why go younger?!?!
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BruceShark
Mar 29th 2011, 17:38
A sexy Miss Marple. It could work, if it wasn't for the fact that everytime i hear that name i think of joan hickson. hollywood is becoming a joke now-a-days. What's next, Shia Le(Talentless)beouf as Bergerac, Ashton Kuctdduhdeuh(the one Demi's shagging) as Poirot or Zac Efron as The Equalizer. Next you'll be saying their making a Professionals movie........................................................... oh for f**kS SAKE.
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Louise
Mar 29th 2011, 18:48
Just No.
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Raybros
Mar 29th 2011, 18:49
my wife's going to be so confused when after sex I tell her I was imagining she was miss marple
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Ali1748
Mar 29th 2011, 22:11
Like Don King said " Only In America. "
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SatineRouge1
Apr 1st 2011, 14:46
Making a younger Miss Marple is one thing, but a modern Miss Marple in NEW YORK!? Thats a disgrace.
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markh53
Apr 1st 2011, 16:13
Don't the Americans ever get tired of producing rubbish, as this effort is likely to be. If they use an elderly English actress, and if they stick closely to the books and English locations, and if the director is a decent one, they might get close to to doing a half decent version of Miss Marple. I've seen the Joan Hickson TV series version, it is the only one to whatch. I've seen the Jeraldene MaCewan (hope I've spelt the name right?) version, good but not that good. Angela Lansbury, if she's still alive, definitely NO. If the film version get's close to the Joan Hickson version, it could be a winner. Yeah, like that's likely to happen. As a side note, Joan Hickson was friends with Agatha Christie, and it is said that some or all of the Miss Marple books were written with Joan Hickson in mind.
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irish
Apr 2nd 2011, 0:28
If it;s in modern times, is it going a descendant of Miss Marple. Will we see her knitting?
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