Universal’s ‘Murder, She Wrote’ Movie With Jamie Lee Curtis Delayed to Early 2028

Murder, she postponed.

via: Deadline

Universal’s Murder, She Wrote movie based on the classic TV show will now go on February 4, 2028, instead of December 22, 2027. Essentially, the studio believes this is a better date for the playability of this type of movie instead of Christmas. There aren’t any other major studio titles on Murder, She Wrote‘s new date.

The pic moves away from a 2027 Christmas window filled with Disney/Marvel Studios’ Avengers: Secret Wars, Lionsgate’s The Housemaid’s Secret, New Line’s The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum, Warner Bros’ untitled Nancy Meyers movie and Sony Animation’s Buds.

Curtis is starring in “Murder, She wrote” as the iconic crime writer and amateur sleuth known as Jessica Fletcher, who was memorably portrayed by Angela Lansbury in the original TV series. Plot details for the upcoming movie haven’t been revealed, but the show — which ran for 12 seasons from 1984 to 1996 — centered around Fletcher’s knack for solving murders in the fictional, quaint town of Cabot Cove, Maine.

“Pitch Perfect” filmmaker Jason Moore is directing the “Murder, She Wrote” reboot from a screenplay by “Dumb Money” writers Lauren Schuker Blum and Rebecca Angelo. Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, whose latest film “Project Hail Mary” became a box office hit with $577 million globally and counting, will produce the film through their first‑look deal with Universal Pictures.

Before she breaks out her trusty typewriter, tailored coat and sensible handbag as Jessica Fletcher, Curtis appear on screen in two 2026 indies: the psychological mind-bender “Sender” and crime thriller “The Only Living Pickpocket in New York.”