Jason Moore brings “Elle” and “Murder, She Wrote” reboot to life

Film, television and Broadway director Jason Moore knows what’s old is new again.

The Tony-nominee not only directed the first two episodes of the Prime Video “Legally Blonde” prequel series “Elle,” but he is also helming the upcoming feature film adaptation of “Murder, She Wrote,” which stars Jamie Lee Curtis as Jessica Fletcher, the role originated on TV by the late Angela Lansbury.

I caught up with Moore recently from his New York City apartment, where he’s just returned to the States after directing a revival of “Avenue Q” in the West End. He earned a Tony nomination on the original Broadway production of the adult-oriented puppet musical in the early aughts for best direction of a musical.

In “Elle,” Reese Witherspoon‘s doppelgänger Lexi Minetree stars in the titular role in the years before we first met Elle Woods in the original two “Legally Blonde” movies, starting in 2001.

-Variety