Re: Miss Marple (Was: USA Election)

On 2024-11-22 14:51:18 +0000, Blueshirt said:

Your Name wrote:
 

On 2024-11-21 10:17:08 +0000, Blueshirt said:
 

2) But he did play Miss Marple in a film, which was okay
although "Murder She Wrote" was a lot better.

 "The Mirror Cracked", released in 1980. It also had some big
name actors like Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, Tony Curtis.
It was meant to be the first of a trilogy of movies with
Lansbury playing Miss Marple, but the other two weren't made
because the first one wasn't successful at the box office.

 That's because it wasn't that good... it was an okay film but a
typical example of when the American studios try and do a film
adaptation of a decent novel and hope the big names will carry
the film.
 The bad news is, 20th Century Studios are supposedly planning a
Miss Marple film following the success of the two Kenneth
Branagh Hercule Poirot film adaptations... so we'll see how that
turns out. I'm sure it'll look lovely and be full of big names,
it's the 'changes for a modern audience' that usually throws the
spanner in to the works.
 

Miss Marple will probably be played by a black or asian trans-person with a missing arm and blind in one eye ... then it ticks three boxes off the Politically Correct quota checklist.  :-\