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TV: Crackle Filming ‘Unknown’ Anthology Drama

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Deadline reporting on a new anthology drama series known as “Unknown,” Crackle.com’s first long-form scripted show, which has already assembled a cast and locked in directors.

Frances Fisher (The Lincoln Lawyer), William Atherton (“Life”) and Taryn Manning (“Hawaii Five-0”) will star in installments of the thriller/horror anthology, which examines unexplained phenomena.

Kevin Connolly (“Entourage”) will direct an episode featuring Jay R. Ferguson (“Mad Men”), visual effects specialist Sam Nicholson (“The Walking Dead”) will direct another episode featuring Christina Pickles, and Martha Coolidge will direct the rest of the six half-hour episodes.

Production on the series, executive produced by Chris Collins (“Sons of Anarchy”) and former LucasFilm executive Steve Tzirlin, started last month for a launch later this year on the Sony Pictures TV-owned digital network Crackle.

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‘Clue’ – Sony Picks Up Film & Television Rights to the Murder-Mystery Board Game

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The classic murder-mystery game Clue is headed back to screens both big and small, with Variety reporting this week that Sony is planning potential film and television adaptations.

Variety reports, “Hasbro Entertainment has closed a deal with Sony‘s TriStar Pictures and Sony Pictures Television for the film and TV rights for the beloved board game.”

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

Clue was created way back in 1943 by Anthony E. Pratt, and the board game was of course notably turned into a feature film starring Tim Curry in 1985 and a mini-series in 2011.

Ryan Reynolds had more recently been attached to star in a remake for 20th Century Studios, while Fox Entertainment had been developing an animated series a few years back.

You can learn all about the making of the original Clue film in Who Done It: The Clue Documentary, which is now streaming on the Bloody Disgusting-powered SCREAMBOX!

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