UPDATED, 3:04 PM: 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.
PREVIOUSLY, March 25: Universal Pictures has locked in a release date for its Murder, She Wrote movie starring Jamie Lee Curtis.
The film will go wide ahead of Christmas on Wednesday, December 22, 2027. The only other title currently set for that date is Buds, Sony Pictures Animation’s follow-up to their recent hit, GOAT. Tentpoles The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum and Avengers: Secret Wars are scheduled to go head to head one week earlier, on December 17, with Nancy Meyers’ new rom-com for Warner Bros. to follow on Christmas Day.
Universal’s adaptation of the Emmy-winning Murder, She Wrote has Jason Moore attached to direct. Dumb Money‘s Lauren Schuker Blum and Rebecca Angelo wrote the script. We were first to report on Curtis being eyed to star back in December 2024.
Plot details for the feature take are under wraps. The film will be produced by Amy Pascal and Phil Lord, Chris Miller and Aditya Sood through Lord Miller’s first‑look deal with Universal Pictures — fresh off success with their Amazon MGM sci-fi pic Project Hail Mary, which has grossed over $147M worldwide at time of reporting.
An iconic crime drama series produced by Universal Television, which ran on CBS for 12 seasons from 1984-1996, Murder, She Wrote starred Angela Lansbury as Jessica Fletcher, a retired schoolteacher turned successful mystery writer, who proves to have an uncanny knack for solving real-life murders. The show was primarily set in the seaside town of Cabot Cove, Maine, though Jessica would often travel to other locales as cases unfolded.
A Sunday night staple, the series was nominated for 41 Emmys with Lansbury nominated each year it ran, though she never won. She later reprised the role through four telepics.