Academy Award-winner Jamie Lee Curtis has officially confirmed she’s on the case for a reboot of the classic TV show Murder She Wrote.

“Oh, it’s … happening,” Curtis playfully confirmed to Entertainment Tonight when asked about rumours of the project.

“We’re a minute away, but yeah, [I’m] very excited. Very excited,” she said of the prospect of stepping into the role of middle-aged mystery writer and amateur sleuth role Jessica Fletcher, made famous by the late Angela Lansbury.

Unlike the original TV show, which ran from 1984 to 1996, the reboot is expected to be a feature-length movie.

British-born Lansbury starred in the original Murder She Wrote for 12 years, in what became one of the most successful and longest-running shows in TV history.

She also reprised the role for four TV movies between 1997 and 2003.

Lansbury’s Fletcher was a retired schoolteacher turned successful mystery writer with an uncanny knack for solving real-life murders.

While the show was primarily set in the fictitious seaside town of Cabot Cove, Maine, Fletcher often travelled to other locations to solve her cases.

Entertainment industry site Deadline first reported rumours of Curtis linked to a Murder She Wrote reboot in December.

It said at the time that the Universal Pictures movie was being written by Lauren Schuker Blum and Rebecca Angelo (Dumb Money), with producers Lord Miller and Amy Pascal.

Curtis has been busy since winning the best supporting actress Oscar for 2022‘s Everything, Everywhere, All At Once.

Last year she starred alongside Pamela Anderson in the critically acclaimed drama The Last Showgirl. She also won an Emmy for her character in streaming hit The Bear.

Curtis stars alongside Margo Martindale on Amazon’s dark comedy The Sticky, and will appear with Nicole Kidman in the upcoming Kay Scarpetta series.

Next week will be the premier of Freakier Friday – in which she reprises her role in the sequel to 2003’s Freaky Friday opposite Lindsay Lohan.