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Netflix Orders ‘Clue’ Competition Series Based on the Whodunit Board Game
Netflix has greenlit “Clue,” an unscripted competition series based on the classic murder-mystery board game, Deadline reports.
Contestants will face physical and mental challenges to collect clues before stepping into a real-life game of deduction and deception. To win, they’ll have to outwit opponents and identify the who, where, and with what of the crime.
Guess right and add money to the prize pot; guess wrong and they may be eliminated. They’ll be surrounded by familiar suspects such as Colonel Mustard, Miss Scarlett, Professor Plum, and Mrs. White.
The project comes from Hasbro Entertainment, The Intellectual Property Corporation, and B17 Entertainment. Sony Pictures, which owns IPC and B17, landed the rights to Clue last year.
“Like so many families and friends over the years, we’ve gathered around the table trying to figure out who did it—making Clue a source of nostalgia that everyone shares,” said Jeff Gaspin, VP of Unscripted Series, Netflix. “Thanks to the incredible vision of our partners at Hasbro Entertainment, IPC, and B17, we’re delivering a fresh, imaginative whodunit competition that will invite today’s audiences into that iconic world.”
Hasbro Entertainment’s Gabriel Marano and Zachary Edwin, IPC’s Holzman and Saidman, and B17’s Bachner and Meagher will executive produce.
Clue has sold more than 150 million copies since its launch in 1949. Jonathan Lynn’s 1985 film adaptation is coming to Steelbook 4K UHD later this month.
Pamela Voorhees gets the spotlight in Friday the 13th prequel series “Crystal Lake,” and EW has unveiled first look images and a teaser that introduce the slasher legend’s origins.
“Crystal Lake” premieres Thursday, October 15 only on Peacock!
The series “begins with the circumstances around that drowning and follows from there Pam’s descent into madness.”
Brad Caleb Kane (“IT: Welcome to Derry”) is the showrunner for the series, and describes the series to EW as “a mixtape of genre.”
“Everybody in this world is living in a different genre in their mind,” Kane says, “until they collide with the genre that Pam is in.” Kane clarifies Crystal Lake is “100 percent” still a slasher. What’s more, the series is set in the ’70s.
Linda Cardellini stars as Pamela Voorhees, a mother who gave up a singing career to raise her special needs child, only to take a dark turn when she loses her son — Jason.
Callum Vinson (“Chucky”) is playing young Jason in “Crystal Lake,” which will tell the origin story of the masked slasher who has stalked the grounds of Crystal Lake for decades.
The show’s cast also includes William Catlett (Abigail), Cameron Scoggins (“Nashville”), Devin Kessler (“Godfather of Harlem”), Gwendolyn Sundstrom, Nick Cordileone (“Warrior”), Joy Suprano (“Fleishman Is in Trouble”), Danielle Kotch (Sinister), Christopher Denham (“Shining Girls”), Nancy Nagrant (“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”), and Phoenix Parnevik.
The eight-episode series is set to be directed by Michael Lennox (“Derry Girls”), Celine Held & Logan George (Caddo Lake), and Quyen Tran (“The Pitt”).
From A24 and streamer Peacock, “Crystal Lake” will notably be the first official Friday the 13th project since the Platinum Dunes remake of the original classic way back in 2009.
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