Hasbro delivers the mystery of creating a new one Indication film as he buys rights to a new adaptation of the killer board game.
Hasbro offers studios an idea
With renewed interest in promoting toys and games as movie IP after the success of Barbie, Hasbro putting Clue (aka Cluedo to non-Americans) in the store makes perfect sense given the murder mystery structure.
According to his Jeff Snyder The InsneiderHasbro is offering the TV and film rights in hopes of using the IP for the first time in nearly 40 years.
If you've somehow never played a game of Clue in your life, it sees players moving around a board trying to determine which character is a murderer, where they did it, and what instrument of death they used to commit the dastardly deed.
It's a tried and trusted formula for making a movie, and in recent years, we've had Rian Johnson's Knives Out mysteries and Kenneth Branagh's take on the legendary Poirot. In both cases, the cast tends to stack up nicely with interesting actors. A Clue movie could do the same.
For good evidence of how well Clue works as a murder mystery caper, look no further than Jonathan Lynn's 1985 film of the same name. This cast included Tim Curry, Christopher Lloyd, Eileen Brennan (The Sting) and Madeline Kahn ( Blazing Saddles). The film famously had three different results shown in different theaters.
Ryan Reynolds was linked to a remake a few years ago, but appears to have been lost to Disney's acquisition of 20th Century Fox, which held the rights as of 2019. Percy Jackson director James Bobin was set to direct. .
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