Jamie Lee Curtis Rumored as Top Choice for Angela Lansbury's “Murder, She Wrote” Role in Film Adaptation of Series: Report

• Jamie Lee Curtis is rumored to be the frontrunner for a Murder, She Wrote movie adaptation, taking over from Angela Lansbury as the Jessica Fletcher character

• The movie will reportedly be written by Lauren Schuker Blum and Rebecca Angelo, and produced by Lord Miller and Amy Pascal

• The late Lansbury portrayed the iconic TV sleuth for 12 seasons, from 1984 to 1996, on CBS

Jamie Lee Curtis' newest role might have us looking for clues!

The Academy Award winner, 66, is reportedly the top choice for the Jessica Fletcher role in an upcoming Murder, She Wrote movie adaptation, per Deadline, though no deal has been made yet.

The movie will be based on the classic mystery series starring Angela Lansbury as Jessica, which ran for 12 seasons on CBS from 1984 to 1996, according to the outlet.

Lauren Schuker Blum and Rebecca Angelo (Dumb Money) have been tapped to write the screenplay, while Lord Miller and Amy Pascal are slated to produce, Deadline reports.

A rep for Universal Pictures had no comment when reached by PEOPLE, while a rep for Curtis did not immediately respond to PEOPLE's request for comment on Monday, Dec. 16.

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Curtis is no stranger to the thriller genre, having gotten her big-screen break in the 1978 slasher Halloween and returned to several films in the franchise — most recently, David Gordon Green's trilogy that concluded with 2022's Halloween Ends.

Curtis also appeared in the horror-comedy series Scream Queens, as well as in writer-director Rian Johnson's hit 2019 murder mystery Knives Out.

In a 2022 essay exclusively for PEOPLE, Curtis reflected on playing her iconic final-girl Halloween character Laurie Strode, writing, "I am trying to figure out how to say goodbye to Laurie, who has taught me the meaning of the words 'resilience,' 'loyalty,' 'perseverance' and 'COURAGE.' "

"After Halloween II (and The Fog and Prom Night), I said I wouldn't do any more horror," she added later in the piece. "And yet ... the first job I did next was a true-life horror story, the NBC TV movie Death of a Centerfold, portraying Dorothy Stratten, who was brutally killed by her husband. Soon, though, I would be lucky enough to go off and have those great opportunities."

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Screen and Broadway icon Lansbury, who died in 2022 at age 96, told PEOPLE back in 1984 that Murder, She Wrote co-creator Peter S. Fischer originally had a different actress in find to play Cabot Cove, Maine's intrepid local sleuth: Jean Stapleton.

"But she had just lost her husband and didn't want to do anything," Lansbury said at the time, adding, "When I read it, I felt that Peter's script could have been written for me. Besides, there are so few decent roles for women on television, and I was immediately taken by Jessica."

The actress, who was in her late 50s at the time, told PEOPLE she was drawn to the character of Jessica because she was a middle-aged woman who was "a vital and intelligent being."

Lansbury also admitted she had "no idea" how "all-absorbing" a task it would be to headline her own weekly one-hour drama, but said she was "motivated by ego."

She added, "Attempting to bring off my own show is a great challenge. If I can do it, at the age of 59, it will be a small miracle. I felt that it would have been a gap in my acting experience if I had never done a television series. I wanted to play to that huge audience just once."

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