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stupidest remake yet...Miss Marple, the hot babe!

Temis the Vorta

Temis the Vorta

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Played by Jennifer Garner, no less. Well why stop there? Let's have hot young Miss Marple fight vampires!! With kung fu!!!!

I know it's fruitless to complain, but the comments section is so funny, I had to share. I like the guy who wants to retool the franchise for The Rock. :rommie: In the sequel, Miss Marple can team up to fight crime with Hercule Poirot, played by Vin Diesel.
 
Who's to say Marple wasn't a hot babe at 30? Christie never wrote it, but i'm quite sure she wasn't born an old lady.

This sounds less like a remake than simply using a name to market a different concept, I don't have a problem with it.
 
Pingfah said:
Who's to say Marple wasn't a hot babe at 30? Christie never wrote it, but i'm quite sure she wasn't born an old lady.

This sounds less like a remake than simply using a name to market a different concept, I don't have a problem with it.
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Yeah right, it's a prequel.


Next: Detective Columbo, starring Bradley Cooper who solves crimes with his fighting skills.
 
Temis the Vorta said:
but the comments section is so funny, I had to share. I like the guy who wants to retool the franchise for The Rock. :rommie: In the sequel, Miss Marple can team up to fight crime with Hercule Poirot, played by Vin Diesel.
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My particular favourite comments:

I also understand they’re re-doing The Diary of Anne Frank with Anne a Nazi sympathizer.
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and its response:

Or as a female Rambo “I’m in the attic! Come and git me M***her F**kers!”
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Ehh..whaaaaat:confused:?
Agatha must be spinning on her grave at warp speed:wtf:
Isnt the whole point of Miss Marple that there is an old lady solving crimes..I mean, thats the charm of the show, right?!?
Why they they even have to remake and sex-up these British shows when the orginals are usually as good as they get:rolleyes:

On that note,,
they are also remaking Prime Suspect with Maria Bello:
http://www.deadline.com/tag/maria-bello-prime-suspect/

Bello is not a bad actress but she aint Helen Mirren..and the orginal one is one of the best UK crime shows ever:)
So, I dont really see the reasons for remaking either of these shows:shrug:
 
JRS said:
Ehh..what:confused:?
Isnt the whole point of Miss Marple that there is an old lady solving crimes..I mean, thats the charm of the show, right?!?
Why they they even have to remake and sex-up these British shows when the orginals are usually as good as they get:rolleyes:
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What makes you say they are remaking a British show? They are basing a film on a younger version of a classic literary character, British TV has nothing to do with this.
 
Spot's Meow said:
I've never been a Marple fan so they can do what they like with her, just don't touch my Poirot!
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Yeah, agreed! Leave the eccentric Belgians alone. ;)

With regards to Miss Marple, "prequel" or not, it doesn't make any sense. I'm not a huge fan of the character either, but the whole point of her is that she's supposed to be an elderly spinster who is able to solve crimes because she's so unassuming. That, and what else is a senior to do in a small British village? :lol:

I just don't see how you can make that work and have her a thirtysomething without turning her into a PI or something, at which point you're just making an adult Nancy Drew movie.
 
Can't say I'm heavily vested in Miss Marple but I've seen a few dozen over the years. Honestly they were often background noise as I did household chores or something but found them passable. I just thought of the show as the precursor for Murder, She Wrote.

Could diehard fans just look at this as a reverse of Miller's TDK. When that came out in '86 had Batman ever been portrayed as a grizzly old man? What about when The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles came out and the audience was shown a cane walking blind in one eye Indy? I don't think doing the reverse for Marple by showing her younger years is any more crazy than other pop culture figures that have been taken out of their familiar territory.

Someone did mention in that comment string from the link in the OP about Judi Dench as Marple. Hmmm, sounds like a good idea.
 
Captain Craig said:
Could diehard fans just look at this as a reverse of Miller's TDK.
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No, they can't. In The Dark Knight Returns, you still get Batman, as driven, obsessed, grim, unforgiving as he ever was, but older. Age has never been a defining trait of the character.

With Miss Marple, old age is her single defining trait. What's Miss Marple in a nutshell? An old lady who solves crimes. What's an old lady who solves crime, only younger? Just a female detective, I guess.

I'm all in favor of taking liberties with the original material, but this really seems counter-productive. Having Jennifer Garner play a young and pretty Miss Marple is like making a movie of "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" that takes place in Connecticut.
 
The first Miss Marple novel was published in 1927, so assuming she was 67 then, she would have been born in 1860. Add on 38 years for Jennifer Garner's age and we have 1898 - roughly contemporary with Sherlock Holmes. However, I can't really envisage this being done as a period piece, and I doubt that she will exhibit any old maid, vinegary tendencies.
 
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