The Nancy Drew side of that's been written; it's Confessions of a Teen Sleuth by Chelsea Cain, which is one of those novels that strongly resembles fanfic in the best possible way.
As for the Garner Miss Marple project...there are certainly a lot of ways for that to go wrong, but there was one lone comment on that Deadline item that pointed out -- accurately, I think -- that there's really no reason one couldn't do a "prequel" story to the canonical works. (Everyone seems to be assuming that the idea is to make Miss Marple sexy; what occurs to me is that it would be much more interesting -- and in some ways a meatier role -- if they made Garner appear plainer for the part, a la Ugly Betty.)
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Date: 2011-03-30 08:08 pm (UTC)As for the Garner Miss Marple project...there are certainly a lot of ways for that to go wrong, but there was one lone comment on that Deadline item that pointed out -- accurately, I think -- that there's really no reason one couldn't do a "prequel" story to the canonical works. (Everyone seems to be assuming that the idea is to make Miss Marple sexy; what occurs to me is that it would be much more interesting -- and in some ways a meatier role -- if they made Garner appear plainer for the part, a la Ugly Betty.)