Reading the Screen: Miss Marple reboot?
Posted by: David Pitt
Okay, so we all know what Miss Marple, Agatha Christie’s spinster amateur sleuth, looks like. She looks like this:
Or maybe this:
But certainly not this:
That’s Jennifer Garner, star of TV’s excellent Alias and several not terribly good movies. According to some reports (like this one at deadline.com), she may be starring in a “reboot” of the Marple stories, as a younger version of the character.
Let’s leave aside the potential for disaster inherent in tinkering with such a beloved character, and pretend, just for the sake of argument, that cutting Miss Marple’s age roughly in half is a good idea. Is Jennifer Garner the right person to play her?
What do you think?
April 7th, 2011 at 7:29 am
You mean she’s not playing Nancy Drew?! Why bother with a reboot–try one of the many delightful cozy mystery female protagonists instead.
April 7th, 2011 at 7:33 am
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April 7th, 2011 at 7:57 am
This is just one man’s opinion, but I don’t think Jennifer Garner is the right person to play Jennifer Garner.
April 7th, 2011 at 8:59 am
I should perhaps have pointed out that this isn’t necessarily a “done deal” — reaction to the initial announcement was pretty vocal, apparently.
I’d actually buy Garner as a grown-up Nancy Drew…that has possibilities. And I did like her in Alias.
April 7th, 2011 at 11:17 am
They didn’t say if they were going to re-hash the same stories or not. This might be fun if they were to do a prequel – the young Miss Marple – and answer questions like why was never married and so on. I’d love to see a period peice with a young, self assured woman who is beginning to develope the powers of obsurvation that make the stories Agatha Christie wrote so interesting and timeless.