Rumor has it that Clue is being remade and director Gore Verbinski of Pirates of the Caribbean fame will direct. Fans of the original Clue are now anxious.

I’m not sure why, the original Clue from 1985 is amusing but certainly it wasn’t a great movie. Maybe a remake would punch up the jokes–doesn’t any remember how lame Clue was in the opening with everyone smelling their shoes for dog poo as if it was funny?

Besides a Clue remake, Hasbro has signed a picture deal to make other games in its lineup into films including Monopoly. Huh?

I’m not sure what would be involved in the script but with the current housing collapse, finance crisis and Wall Street scandals this should go over real well with the public. Unless they can spin it into a satire and rip the annoyingly rich a couple of new ones.

Other board games include Ouija (wasn’t that already featured in The Exorcist?) and CandyLand featuring a hooker named Candy in a redlight district–no, it will be for kids with the usual innuendo slipped in for the adults.

I like the idea, as silly as it sounds, of turning our classic board games into novelty movies. It was kind of inevitable. Hollywood is searching for what we love and even with the onslaught of computer and video games boardgames are still with us–and even branching out.

Just recently I stopped into a games store at the mall and there are new companies putting out original themed boardgames and card games as if the Xbox 360 doesn’t exist. Family time goes beyond Yahtzee or Trivial Pursuit and into movie-based games, original genre games such as fantasy and noir thrillers, and old-fashioned games brought back to life that almost seem new again because we’ve lost touch with the past.

With Gore Verbinski directing a new Clue movie I think we can expect something better than what we would get with a throwaway version by an unknown director. The question is will they do the alternate endings scenarios or simply kill somebody and stick with one murderer? Here’s hoping they cast some A-list actors and pump out a good script. Johnny Depp could star as Professor Plum–he’s eccentric enough.

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