Jennifer Garner has been cast as Miss Marple, an elderly woman detective who featured prominently in several of author Agatha Christie’s novels. The news is perplexing, and must mean that Miss Marple will be portrayed much younger than she was in the books or in previous screen versions. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Disney Pictures plans to “modernize” Miss Marple, who, instead of coming from the small village of St. Mary Mead in England, will now be a single woman living in New York City who, instead of being content to be a single woman, hopes to find a date and instead of knitting in her spare time, attends yoga classes. Miss Marple has formerly been played onscreen by actresses such as Helen Hayes and Angela Lansbury.