Tim Curry films are finding new life again with Hollywood remaking It, Rocky Horror and now Clue. 20th Century Fox has reportedly scored the rights to Hasbro’s “CLUE” game with plans for a new film adaptation of the property. The original one is a classic 80’s comedy.
Josh Feldman is producing the new take on the murder mystery board game, this one expanding the playing field to a ‘worldwide mystery’ and introducing action-adventure elements that could kick off the start of franchise. The remake was previously set up at Universal before the studio dropped the project in 2011, according to Dark Horizons.
The property was previously adapted into the 1985 feature which has since become a comedy classic with a massive cult following thanks to the razor sharp script by John Landis. Based on the popular board game, this comedy begins at a dinner party hosted by Mr. Boddy (Lee Ving), where he admits to blackmailing his visitors. These guests, who have been given aliases, are Mrs. Peacock (Eileen Brennan), Miss Scarlet (Lesley Ann Warren), Mr. Green (Michael McKean), professor Plum (Christopher Lloyd), Mrs. White (Madeline Kahn) and Col. Mustard (Martin Mull). When Boddy turns up murdered, all are suspects, and together they try to figure out who is the killer.
In this cult classic, sweethearts Brad (Barry Bostwick) and Janet (Susan Sarandon), stuck with a flat tire during a storm, discover the eerie mansion of Dr. Frank-N-Furter (Tim Curry), a transvestite scientist. As their innocence is lost, Brad and Janet meet a houseful of wild characters, including a rocking biker (Meat Loaf) and a creepy butler (Richard O’Brien). Through elaborate dances and rock songs, Frank-N-Furter unveils his latest creation: a muscular man named “Rocky.”
“Just doing it again, but in a different role . . . it was a lot of fun,” said Curry. “I remembered quite a lot of the original film because it was my first movie. . . . It was fun though to do it again. I actually offered myself as Dr. [Everett] Scott, because I was already in a wheelchair,” the actor, who is recovering from a stroke, said to audience laughs. Alas, “They thought the narrator was a better fit, and I enjoyed it a lot.”
In It, seven friends engage in a struggle with the demon they first encountered 30 years earlier in their Maine hometown. From the Stephen King book.
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Hollywood Continues To Remake Tim Curry Films This Time With Clue
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