Arts & Entertainment
Is Jennifer Garner a Mysterious Choice to Play Miss Marple?
The actress may take on the role of the Agatha Christie sleuth in a Disney remake, but some people believe the actress is too young.
Pacific Palisades resident Jennifer Garner is nearly ready to step into the shoes of an iconic elderly character, Miss Marple from Agatha Christie’s crime novels.
The deal is not quite finalized as Nellie Andreeva of Deadline.com reports. Chorion—the company in control of the rights to Agatha Christie—issued a statement to the BBC saying that the Disney remake deal "has not closed."
Since Deadline first revealed the casting choice by Disney's production team to rejuvenate a role tailor-made for an older woman, the blowback on social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook has been swift and harsh, with posters condemning the idea of reinventing Miss Marple as a thirty-something amateur sleuth.
Christie biographer Laura Thompson told Deadline.com that the mystery writer "would not have been happy with Disney’s desire to mess with tradition.”
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In several films in the early 1960s the role of Miss Marple was played by Margaret Rutherford, who was in her 70s at the time.
