Jennifer Garner is the new Miss Marple
(CBS) Knitting. Gardening. Tweed. Sounds like Jennifer Garner, right?
Garner, 38, will play Miss Marple, Agatha Christie's old, sharp-minded, as-logical-as-Spock amateur detective in a new Disney production. She'll also be a producer on the project.
So Miss Marple's age will likely be adjusted. And is that really such a bad thing? As creaky as the recent "Sherlock Holmes" adaptation was, the problem wasn't a relatively youthful Holmes (as played by Robert Downey, Jr.). It was the dreadful script.
Entertainment Weekly reports that Mark Frost is writing the screenplay for the new Marple movie. Frost created "Twin Peaks" with David Lynch, so the script probably won't be boring. Strange? Impenetrable? Maybe. But not boring.
And, let's face it. Garner is charming. Plus, she has spy chops ("Alias"), superhero chops ("Elektra") and girl-next-door chops ("The Invention of Lying"). And acting in "Ghosts of Girlfriends Past" has to be scarier than reducing Miss Marple's age by 32 years, right?