NO.

[mrv3000]

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, NO.

Comments

[grav-ity.livejournal.com]

And we have a winner for "Dumbest thing I've read on the internet today"!

Seriously, did you watch Alias? Garner is TERRIBLE AT ACCENTS.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

She'll probably be a young, hip Marple who's a Californian and has a boyfriend.

I AM FULLY COMMITTED TO HATING EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS.

The icon says it all

[chiroho.livejournal.com]

Agatha Christie will be spinning so hard in her grave it will be likely to cause temporal distortions all across that part of the hemisphere!!

Re: The icon says it all

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

The icon is perfect. This is Hollywood at its crapiest! Poor Christie. :(

[elirrina.livejournal.com]

That's completely missing the point!!! Ugh.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Totally!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_thirty2flavors/]

I am not very familiar with Miss Marple and the only Christie book I have read was Poirot, but like... what I don't get is... if it is Hip and Cool bb Marple, what... makes it... different from any other generic Hip And Cool Detective story?

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

People recognize the name and so will watch it! Or something. BAH.

[raysgal.livejournal.com]

When I heard about the whole Miss Marple thing my mind immediately went to Catherine Tate, but I blame that on Doctor Who.

Anyway, Jennifer Garner is totally wrong for this. It's just wrong period.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

SO WRONG.

Catherine Tate could be awesome...in about 20 years though. :D

[yourebrilliant.livejournal.com]

Oh ffs. I agree with chiroho Sherlock is kickass and updating Miss Marple could have been good but not if you change the basic traits of the character! She is, as you say, a little old lady [from England] who knits and solves crimes. This should not be changed!

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Ugh. It's going to be unrecognizable. Part of the charm of Marple (or any of Christie's detectives) is that they're set in an age before lots of forensics. Her stories are psychological, which really only works if you don't have CSI flying in an solving everything through science.

[suzvoy.livejournal.com]

HAHAHAHA

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

*sobs*

[chloris67.livejournal.com]

Really?!? Someone thought this was a good idea? I think this travesty requires my newest (and very appropriate) icon!

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

BLECH. THIS WILL BE SO BAD.

[maypanic.livejournal.com]

This is obviously an April Fools prank story, accidentally published a few days early. Eddies in the space-time continuum or some such.

A stupid prank, I tell you. NOTHING I EVER HEAR OTHERWISE WILL EVER CONVINCE ME OTHERWISE.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

APRIL FOOLS! YES! THAT'S WHAT THIS IS! LALALALALALALALA.

[shinyopals.livejournal.com]

...

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

On behalf of all Americans, Californians and people under 40, I appologize.

[spikewriter]

I know -- I think they saw "Sherlock"', went "Ooh, shiny! Let's do one ourselves -- but we have to make her hipper or no one will get it.

:: beats head on desk ::

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

DAMN YOU, MOFFAT!

[jemster.livejournal.com]

Of all things good and holy...

If any role was perfect for the older actress THIS IS IT! I've always been in love with her novel And Then There Were None, but I must confess only a passing familiarity with the Miss Marple stories. Still, I must agree that casting Garner is just terrible. I wouldn't mind if it was someone who could actually pull off the accent...

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Honestly, I was never terribly wild about the Marple books (*loves Tommy & Tuppence*), but I've absolutely loved the various adaptations of them. And I want someone old, British and awesome!

[nicachick007.livejournal.com]

OH MY GOD. Has Disney LOST THEIR MINDS?!?

I would love to have Disney do Agatha Christie films, but only if they did it right. There is no WAY they can make Miss Marple young. And most definitely not Jennifer freaking Garner. I can't really take her seriously as an actress.

This will probably go under my list of "Disney movies I will refuse to ever ever see" along with Mars Needs Moms.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Just...NO. NO NO NO NO NO. WAH.

[firstofoct.livejournal.com]

I hate when they screw over literary canon, but I can't help but to be a little excited for JGar. She is my favorite ever.

SORRY. :(

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

SHE NEEDS TO DO SOMETHING ELSE! *FLAILS*

[asgaja.livejournal.com]

D:

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Indeed.

[greenpear.livejournal.com]

Let's chalk this up to "One More Thing The Americans Will Butcher!"

Haven't we done enough damage to well-done British material (I'm lookin at you Syfyilius Channel's Being Human)...

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

WHY? WHYYYYYYYYYYY?

[icepixie]

I saw this yesterday and couldn't quite believe it. The entire point of Miss Marple is that she's old and uncool and NO ONE SUSPECTS HER OF BEING ABLE TO SOLVE THE CRIME.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

YES. There's so much wrong with this whole thing, I don't know where to start!

[orange-crushed.livejournal.com]

MAYBE IN FIFTY YEARS and with fifty years of dialect coachingI WOULD ALLOW IT
BUT RIGHT NOW,
NO.

DDDDDD:

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

WHY MUST THEY DO THIS? WHY?

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

WHAT. SOMEWHERE, AGATHA CHRISTIE IS ROLLING OVER IN HER GRAVE.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

MULTIPLE TIMES.

[orelle-peredhil.livejournal.com]

Oh goddddd, whyyyyyyyyyy? Why why why why whyyyyyyyyyy? I like Jennifer Garner just fine, BUT NOT AS MISS MARPLE, FFS. AUGH.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

I have NO clue how anyone thought this was a good idea.

[pittsburghgirl.livejournal.com]

"Murder!". she wrote.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

BWAH!