Angela Lansbury Baffled By Miss Marple Reboot

Veteran actress Angela Lansbury has spoken out against plans to remake Miss Marple with Jennifer Garner playing a young version of the elderly spinster sleuth.

The Murder, She Wrote star portrayed Agatha Christie's famous detective in 1980 film The Mirror Crack'd, alongside a stellar cast including Dame Elizabeth Taylor, Tony Curtis and Rock Hudson, while other actresses to tackle the role include Dame Margaret Rutherford and Joan Hickson.

Disney bosses recently announced plans to reboot Miss Marple in a new movie showing her as a young woman, with Garner tapped to play the title role. Lansbury admits she is shocked by the news and can't understand how the concept could be successful.

She tells Britain's the Guardian, "Will you please tell me how? How can they cast this lovely young girl in that role? It doesn't make any sense at all."

Meanwhile in related news the actress is appealing to producers in London to consider her for upcoming roles at the city's Haymarket Theatre - because she longs to perform on the same stage her mother once graced.

The Murder, She Wrote star has enjoyed an illustrious theatre career, which has won her five Tony Awards over the years.

She was most recently seen in Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music on Broadway opposite Catherine Zeta-Jones, but bowed out of the show last summer (10). Lansbury is now hoping to return to her native U.K. to appear in the West End - but she will only sign up if she is given the chance to work at the same venue where her late mother, actress Moyna MacGill, once performed.

She tells Britain's The Guardian, "I really would love to play the Theatre Royal Haymarket, because that is where my mother played. It nearly happened last year, and if that venue could be guaranteed I would come. I only want someone to make the offer."