Here's a clue for something new. Clue has a new deal with Sony Pictures for TV and film rights to the popular board game.

Deadline reports that Sony Pictures Television and TriStar Pictures closed the deal with Hasbro Entertainment. Since it departed from eOne, Hasbro has been shopping the rights around town in hopes of launching a remake of the franchise.

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The last time we saw Clue was in 1985. The comedy starred Tim Curry, Eileen Brennan, and Madeline Kahn. Six guests were anonymously invited for dinner in a strange mansion. Things change when the host is killed. In an investigation with the staff, they try to identify the murderer as the body count keeps rising.

Since then, there have been attempts to revamp Clue, including attempts to make a new movie in 2011 and 2016. Stars like Ryan Reynolds and Jason Bateman were involved, but nothing came of it. In 2020, director James Bobin tried to get something going with Oren Uziel as a writer, but that fell flat.

Also, Dewayne Perkins was working on developing an animated series for it with Fox. That, too, never came to fruition.

It seems like a good time to get something shaking with Clue. Considering the success of toy and game-based movies, they should strike while it's hot. Films such as Barbie, Super Mario Bros., and the upcoming Sonic the Hedgehog 3 film are some prime examples of creating successful features based on stuff that's played with.

Also, the Clue-like series, The Traitors, is a popular hit worldwide. In this reality competition, 21 contestants work together on a series of missions, and the goal is to eliminate the Traitors and claim the prize money for themselves as Faithfuls. Meanwhile, each night, someone is “murdered.”

Zev Foreman and Gabriel Marano, Hasbro Heads of Film and TV, said, “Sony is the perfect partner to adapt a property as culturally impactful and mystery-defining as Clue. Nicole Brown, Katherine Pope, and their teams are tremendous creative collaborators and idea partners to help us figure out after 75 years if it was Colonel Mustard in the conservatory with the candlestick.”

According to Board Game Geek, Clue has been around since 1949. The description of the game states: “Players move from room to room in a mansion to solve the mystery of who done it, with what, and where? Players are dealt character weapons and location cards after the top card from each card type is secretly placed in the confidential file in the middle of the board.”

It adds: “Players must move to a room and then make a suggestion against a character saying they did it in that room with a specific weapon. Through deductive reasoning, each player must figure out which character, weapon, and location are in the secret file.”

Clue has a ton of potential for entertainment. Hopefully, Sony Pictures Television and TriStar Pictures can produce some good murder-mystery content quicker than playing the board game.