A big-screen version of Murder, She Wrote, the classic whodunnit series that starred the late Angela Lansbury, is on the way.
US entertainment trade publication Variety reports that the Universal Pictures project involves Lauren Schuker Blum and Rebecca Angelo, the writers of the upcoming Dumb Money, and producer Amy Pascal, whose films include Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and Little Women.
Schuker Blum and Angelo, whose credits also include Orange Is the New Black, joined the project before the current writers' strike in the US and will not resume their screenplay work on Murder, She Wrote until a deal is reached in the dispute.
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Murder, She Wrote, which starred Lansbury in her iconic role as mystery writer turned sleuth Jessica Fletcher, ran for 12 seasons from 1984 to 1996, with four spin-off movies from 1997 to 2003.
During the show's 12-season run, Lansbury was Emmy-nominated every year but never won.
The stage and screen veteran, an Irish citizen who lived in Co Cork for many years, passed away in October 2022 at the age of 96.
Dumb Money, "the story of fortunes won and lost overnight in the David vs Goliath GameStop short squeeze that changed Wall Street forever", is released in Irish cinemas on Friday 22 September.
