Jamie Lee Curtis higher bust out the doilies and contempo informal trench coats — it appears she’s headed to “Homicide, She Wrote.”

Selection has confirmed that Oscar winner Curtis is in early talks to play the enduring Jessica Fletcher, a criminal offense author turned crack detective, who was on the heart of the long-running unique TV sequence that starred Angela Lansbury.

Common Photos is placing collectively an untitled characteristic movie mission collectively round Fletcher, through producers Phil Lord, Chris Miller and Amy Pascal (all have total offers on the Donna Langley-run studio lot).

Early ideas across the character and any premise are at present unknown. The script is from Lauren Schuker Blum and Rebecca Angelo (who penned “Dumb Cash,” the GameStop inventory scandal story which grew to become a characteristic at Sony below Craig Gillespie).

Representatives for Curtis and Common had no rapid touch upon the matter.

Common Tv produced “Homicide, She Wrote” which ran for 12 seasons beginning in 1984. Lansbury grew to become a family identify due to her portrayal of an uncommon gumshoe, usually in perilous conditions however all the time well mannered and clutching a smart purse. The sequence peaked at a reported 40 million viewers per week, and nonetheless averaged round 25 million per episode via the top of its run.

It’s been almost two years since Curtis nabbed the Academy Award for greatest supporting actress for her efficiency in “Every part All over the place All at As soon as.” She’s at present on the awards circuit for “The Final Showgirl,” Gia Coppola’s ode to the light glamour ladies of the Las Vegas strip. She’ll subsequent seem in James L. Brooks’ “Ella McKay.”

Deadline first reported the information of the Curtis talks.