Gore Verbinski Does It With A Candlestick For New ‘Clue’ Movie

Posted by Rob Hunter (rob@filmschoolrejects.com) on February 25, 2009

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It’s one thing to remake a lesser film like Michael Caine’s Get Carter or Gene Wilder’s Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory, but Hollywood has gone too far now… they’re remaking the 1985 classic Martin Mull film Clue!

I kid of course. Except for the part about remaking Clue.

Gore Verbinski has signed on (per Variety) to direct a new cinematic incarnation of the board game for Universal. Not content to simply rehash the campy take of the previous film, or apparently the actual content of the game itself, Verbinksi’s film will be turned into ”a global thriller and transmedia event that uses deductive reasoning as its storytelling engine.”

Do you even care?

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joe

no

ANGRYBROOMSTICK

FUUUUCCKKK THIS!!!! We have way too many planned remakes and adaptations of boardgames.

WITHOUT CURRY, CLUE IS NOTHING! I'll always have a special place in my heart for the 1985 film.

Joe

Clue is one of my all time favs. I think that if there is one guy who could do it, it would be Gore. He did "Pirates" so well and Clue with or without Curry should be good. Now the real question is, could we see a Depp/Gore partnership again, with Depp taking over as Wadsworth???

dragonmum

ugh... just the thought makes my head ache... Wait, you're not kidding, are you? Sorry, but the original was hilarious & clever BECAUSE of the talent they attracted. Any remake won't be worth watching.

daviedave47

I think they should leave well enough alone. Instead of ruining an already amazing movie with a "retooling," they should make a movie out of a different board game...like Candyland...or Shoots and Ladders...