Damn you and your dimples!

[apple_pathways]

So, I'm in a quandary about whether or not to go all prissypants about Jennifer Garner playing Miss Marple.

PROS

• Agatha Christie on the screen for me to enjoy.
  
• Jennifer Garner is adorable.

CONS

• THE WHOLE POINT OF THE MISS MARPLE CHARACTER IS THAT SHE'S A GOSSIPY OLD SPINSTER!
  
• Disney. Blech.

Also potentially influencing my opinion: several British newspapers have already gone and decided to go Full Prissypants and condemn the decision. In the end, will they irritate me more than whomever is eventually cast to play the sassy young Marple's love interest?

Anyone want to influence me one way or the other?

ETA: In the interests of full disclosure, and as a shocking illustration of my own biases, I would like to state for the record that I FULLY APPROVE of hiring some Hot Young Thing to play an updated version of Poirot. But who should it be? Hmm...

Comments

[ladylovelace.livejournal.com]

I want someone named Matthew to play Poirot. I will take last names 'Goode' or 'Smith'. Purely because I imagine he would be not fat, because then it would be hard to remember that he's basically Sherlock Holmes with an accent, right?

If we're having a slightly weighty Poirot, James McAvoy always looks pretty when he's a little soft around the edges. (No, I don't have a head-catalogue of attractive British actors, what makes you ask?)

I couldn't give a stuff about Marple because I have my Marple already, and feel no need to have a new one. Also, Disney was cool when it made cartoons. Not so much any more.

[apple-pathways.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I like the idea of James McAvoy as Poirot! Good call. (I am rubbish when it comes to fancying hot young actors. Also, I spend far too much time consuming British media, as I can find no acceptable way to express the previous sentiment without copious use of Britishisms.)

Who is your Marple? The only one I've really experienced is June Whitfield in the radio dramas. (Which, BTW: she is fantastic in that role! Why can't she be in the Disney movie version?!)