For anyone who grew up in the ‘80s and ‘90s, Clue is one of the those movies that willed its way into universal belovedness simply because it was always running on cable TV. That’s not to say the 1985 flick isn’t a bad movie. By no means—it’s a low-key comedy classic, with broad, even theatrical performances by masters of the form like Tim Curry, Madeline Kahn, Christopher Lloyd, Michael McKean, and Marin Mull. John Landis, who also co-wrote other standards of cable comedy like The Blues Brothers and An American Werewolf in London, helped on the script, which features not one, not two, but three endings. It is, after all, based on the great murder-mystery board game, in which anything is possible.
But enough time has passed—and it’s well-liked enough, but not too much—that Clue has fallen into Hollywood’s “remake potential” pile. It’s the kind of thing where if it was remade, it would have to remade by the right people, filmmakers who could do a different take but still have reverence and appreciation for the source material. That person just might be A-list actor and self-deprecating funny guy Ryan Reynolds. He just signed a big, three-year deal with 20th Century Fox (soon to be a subsidiary of Disney). Among the first projects on which he’ll be working: a new Clue movie. He’s producing via his vanity imprint, Maximum Effort, and he’s also brought along Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, the guys who wrote Deadpool, which is objectively Reynolds’ best and funniest movie.
Fans of Clue can’t wait to play.