Gore Verbinski in the Parlor with the Candlestick

I happened to watch Clue about eight or nine months ago. I had bought the DVD maybe a year earlier and had never unwrapped it. It was in the $5 bin and I thought, "I need to get this just to see the multiple endings." You see, in the 1980s, it was cool to have multiple endings. Several books allowed you to choose your own adventure based on things that would happen in a given chapter. "If you think the Count is lying, turn to page 128," and so on. So when they made a big screen version of the board game Clue, the only equitable way to do it is to have many different solutions, so depending on where you saw the film, you saw a different a killer revealed. The movie kind of holds up. It wasn't as hysterical as they would've liked at the time, but it hasn't slipped much since, so I guess that's a plus. But now director Gore Verbinski may roll the dice on a Clue movie, and while it's a smart move to change it up a little bit, Universal and Verbinski aren't simply updating the characters like the board game did recently. No, this will be entirely different. Jonathan Krauss, a honcho at Verbinski's Blind Wink production company tells Variety the concept will be "a global thriller and transmedia event that uses deductive reasoning as its storytelling engine." Oh...you mean The Da Vinci Code? That may be too big an extension of premise, though; what's wrong with just making a macabre murder mystery?

Comments

[knives]

Isn't clue supposed to just be a copy of a Christie ONE ROOM mystery? Why even bother to call it clue?

[Get The Big Picture]

I don't know if it's specifically an Agatha Christie knock-off or not. Maybe it's in the spirit of her work. Speaking of, why don't we remake some damn Agatha Christie mysteries?

[knives]

Good idea. As for the game it was made as baiting since Christie was very popular at the time.

[Get The Big Picture]

I guess that makes sense. She was a terrific mystery writer, and if you take the cases and update the stories, you could have a goldmine.

[MRPigg]

Clue (the film) does have an odd charm. It holds up to multiple viewings because it is pronounced and stylistic. Though not really laugh out loud funny, it appeals to me. I would compare it to watching a filmed stage play that is really well executed. It is also very quotable, which accounts for it's cult status.