Dear Hollywood,
Mamarazzi kindly asks that you stop hijacking our favorite characters to support your endless quest to sexify everything every written.
Agatha Christie... ahem, Dame Agatha Christie, is, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, the best-selling writer of books of all time and, with William Shakespeare, the best-selling author of any kind. Only the Bible has sold more than her roughly four billion copies of novels.[1] According to Index Translationum, Christie is the most translated individual author, with only the collective corporate works of Walt Disney Productions surpassing her.[2] Her books have been translated into at least 103 languages.[3]
Clearly, her works hold their own. Her characters, from the fussy gray celled Hercule Poirot to elderly busybody observer of everyday life, Jane Marple, remain amongst the most beloved literary creations of all time.
The stand alone.
So why Hollywood, why, do you feel that Miss Marple, spinster of St. Mary Mead, needs to go from this:
to this?
What's next? Justin Timberlake as Poirot?
We respectfully request that you take your "Hip Urban Singleton" premise and shove it. Some things are better left alone.
Thank You,
Mamarazzi
This means war.
Not to mention the total dissolution of civilization as we know, like and understand it.
At least it's not Amy Adams.
One of the comments I've read about this is that part of Miss Marple's success is society tends to overlook the elderly and she uses that to her advantage - no one is going to overlook Jennifer Garner!
Wait, you mean they're casting JG as Jane Marple??? Are they freakin' nuts?!
They should use Betty White. Or Whoophi Goldberg.