{"id":183308,"date":"2025-07-27T18:20:40","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T18:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/27\/self-retiring-jamie-lee-curtis-gears-up-for-murder-she-wrote-reboot\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T18:20:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T18:20:40","slug":"self-retiring-jamie-lee-curtis-gears-up-for-murder-she-wrote-reboot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/27\/self-retiring-jamie-lee-curtis-gears-up-for-murder-she-wrote-reboot\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cSelf-Retiring\u201d Jamie Lee Curtis Gears Up For \u2018Murder, She Wrote\u2019 Reboot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"has-dropcap\">We all know that Hollywood is a place that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/hollywood\/story\/mikey-madison-anora-oscar?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">values youth above all else<\/a>, but <strong>Jamie Lee Curtis<\/strong> has specific expertise in the matter. The 66-year-old actor has seen her fair share of bumps on the road to fame since her 1978 debut in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/hollywood\/2018\/10\/michael-myers-unmasked-halloween-movies?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Halloween<\/em><\/a>, but the one-time ingenue was hit hardest by the business\u2019s agism when she watched her famous parents\u2019 careers trail off in their later years. But despite her worry that she\u2019d follow in their footsteps, the daughter of Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh is booking projects left and right\u2014including a much-anticipated reboot of the beloved TV series <em>Murder, She Wrote<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Curtis is currently promoting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/hollywood\/story\/lindsay-lohan-and-jamie-lee-curtis-are-finally-filming-freaky-friday-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Freakier Friday<\/em><\/a>, the long-awaited sequel to 2003 body swap comedy <em>Freaky Friday<\/em>, so if it seems like she and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/hollywood\/story\/lindsay-lohan-netflix-rom-com-botox-second-child\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">co-star <strong>Lindsay Lohan<\/strong><\/a> are everywhere these days, you might be right. And that ubiquity might continue for a while, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/hollywood\/2023\/03\/awards-insider-jamie-lee-curtis-oscar-win?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Oscar winner<\/a> <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2025\/jul\/26\/jamie-lee-curtis-interview-plastic-surgery-power-age-freakier-friday\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2025\/jul\/26\/jamie-lee-curtis-interview-plastic-surgery-power-age-freakier-friday&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2025\/jul\/26\/jamie-lee-curtis-interview-plastic-surgery-power-age-freakier-friday\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tells <em>The Guardian<\/em><\/a> she also has \u201cTV series <em>Scarpetta<\/em>, survival movie <em>The Lost Bus<\/em>, four other TV shows and two other movies\u201d in the works.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">A project she failed to name might be the biggest one for those obsessed with 1980s TV. Deadline <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2024\/12\/jamie-lee-curtis-murder-she-wrote-movie-top-choice-angela-lansbury-universal-1236203878\/\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/deadline.com\/2024\/12\/jamie-lee-curtis-murder-she-wrote-movie-top-choice-angela-lansbury-universal-1236203878\/&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2024\/12\/jamie-lee-curtis-murder-she-wrote-movie-top-choice-angela-lansbury-universal-1236203878\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> late last year that Jamie Lee Curtis was in talks to star in a film adaptation of <em>Murder, She Wrote<\/em>, which ran on CBS from 1984 to 1996. According to the publication, Curtis would play Jessica Fletcher, the role last occupied by Angela Lansbury, in a film written by <strong>Lauren Schuker Blum<\/strong> and <strong>Rebecca Angelo<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"AssetEmbedWrapper-fkZDUs kHRAYC asset-embed\">\n<div class=\"AssetEmbedAssetContainer-eEeytc eRSvCP asset-embed__asset-container\"><span class=\"SpanWrapper-zEXFr hdztbW responsive-asset AssetEmbedResponsiveAsset-cIfZLr fHIkTW asset-embed__responsive-asset\"><picture class=\"ResponsiveImagePicture-cGZhnX jwYQWO AssetEmbedResponsiveAsset-cIfZLr fHIkTW asset-embed__responsive-asset responsive-image\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/picture><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"CaptionWrapper-jYrTxZ hvludv caption AssetEmbedCaption-fyuOdR iTyhpv asset-embed__caption\" data-testid=\"caption-wrapper\"><span class=\"BaseWrap-sc-gzmcOU BaseText-eqOrNE CaptionText-brNLzD deqABF ijcmYY ixLsrW caption__text\"><\/p>\n<p>Jamie Lee Curtis, winner of the Best Supporting Actress award for &#8220;Everything Everywhere All at Once,&#8221; attends the Governors Ball during the 95th Annual Academy Awards at Dolby Theatre on March 12, 2023 in Hollywood, California.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"BaseWrap-sc-gzmcOU BaseText-eqOrNE CaptionCredit-eowWKH deqABF PwCDR kpuElq caption__credit\">Emma McIntyre\/Getty Images<\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paywall\">When caught on the red carpet <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/x.com\/etnow\/status\/1948149443070763455\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/x.com\/etnow\/status\/1948149443070763455&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/etnow\/status\/1948149443070763455\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">by <em>Entertainment Tonight<\/em><\/a> last week, Curtis appeared to confirm that report, saying \u201cOh, it\u2019s happening,\u201d when asked about the reboot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cWe\u2019re a minute away, but yeah, [I\u2019m] very excited. Very excited. But I\u2019m tamping down my enthusiasm until we start shooting. I have a couple of other things to hustle, but then I\u2019ll get to enjoy that work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">And yet, Curtis tells the <em>Guardian<\/em>, \u201cI have been self-retiring for 30 years. I have been prepping to get out, so that I don\u2019t have to suffer the same as my family did. I want to leave the party before I\u2019m no longer invited.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">That fear of the age wolf at the door started early, as she watched how things went for her parents. \u201cI witnessed my parents lose the very thing that gave them their fame and their life and their livelihood, when the industry rejected them at a certain age,\u201d Curtis says. \u201cI watched them reach incredible success and then have it slowly erode to where it was gone. And that\u2019s very painful.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"AssetEmbedWrapper-fkZDUs kHRAYC asset-embed\">\n<div class=\"AssetEmbedAssetContainer-eEeytc eRSvCP asset-embed__asset-container\"><span class=\"SpanWrapper-zEXFr hdztbW responsive-asset AssetEmbedResponsiveAsset-cIfZLr fHIkTW asset-embed__responsive-asset\"><picture class=\"ResponsiveImagePicture-cGZhnX jwYQWO AssetEmbedResponsiveAsset-cIfZLr fHIkTW asset-embed__responsive-asset responsive-image\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Image may contain Jamie Lee Curtis Brenda Song Katy Wix Pamela Anderson Kiernan Shipka Adult Person and Groupshot\" class=\"ResponsiveImageContainer-eNxvmU cfBbTk responsive-image__image\" src=\"https:\/\/media.vanityfair.com\/photos\/688662dc3fd9428ff5ba7268\/master\/w_1600%2Cc_limit\/2170561877\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.vanityfair.com\/photos\/688662dc3fd9428ff5ba7268\/master\/w_120,c_limit\/2170561877 120w, https:\/\/media.vanityfair.com\/photos\/688662dc3fd9428ff5ba7268\/master\/w_240,c_limit\/2170561877 240w, https:\/\/media.vanityfair.com\/photos\/688662dc3fd9428ff5ba7268\/master\/w_320,c_limit\/2170561877 320w, https:\/\/media.vanityfair.com\/photos\/688662dc3fd9428ff5ba7268\/master\/w_640,c_limit\/2170561877 640w, https:\/\/media.vanityfair.com\/photos\/688662dc3fd9428ff5ba7268\/master\/w_960,c_limit\/2170561877 960w, https:\/\/media.vanityfair.com\/photos\/688662dc3fd9428ff5ba7268\/master\/w_1280,c_limit\/2170561877 1280w, https:\/\/media.vanityfair.com\/photos\/688662dc3fd9428ff5ba7268\/master\/w_1600,c_limit\/2170561877 1600w\" sizes=\"100vw\"\/><\/noscript><\/picture><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"CaptionWrapper-jYrTxZ hvludv caption AssetEmbedCaption-fyuOdR iTyhpv asset-embed__caption\" data-testid=\"caption-wrapper\"><span class=\"BaseWrap-sc-gzmcOU BaseText-eqOrNE CaptionText-brNLzD deqABF ijcmYY ixLsrW caption__text\"><\/p>\n<p>(L-R) Billie Lourd, Kiernan Shipka, Pamela Anderson, Brenda Song and Jamie Lee Curtis of &#8216;The Last Showgirl&#8217; pose in the Getty Images Portrait Studio Presented by IMDb and IMDbPro during the Toronto International Film Festival at InterContinental Toronto Centre on September 06, 2024 in Toronto, Ontario.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"BaseWrap-sc-gzmcOU BaseText-eqOrNE CaptionCredit-eowWKH deqABF PwCDR kpuElq caption__credit\">Gareth Cattermole\/Getty Images<\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/hollywood\/story\/jamie-lee-curtis-murder-she-wrote-aging\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all know that Hollywood is a place that values youth above all else, but Jamie Lee Curtis has specific expertise in the matter. 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