Universal has involved an American director, Gore Verbinski to create the exciting game of “Clue”. He would be directing a live-action, murder and mystery kind of concept based on the Hasbro board game. “Clue” is one among the few board games to exceed $1 billion in making profits, in almost 50 markets

Hasbro’s Brian Goldner and Bennett Schneir, together have an overall agreement at the studio. Hence Verbinski will join them with his U-based Blind Wink banner to produce the game. The next game that Verbinski will be directing is “Bioshock” for U.

Clue was created in England by a retired legal clerk named Anthony Pratt during WWII and published in 1948. A previous film version was released in 1985.

During this summer, Paramount will distribute both “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” and “G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra,” belonging to Hasbro. At Universal, Hasbro created “Stretch Armstrong,” which had Steve Oedekerk as writer; the Ridley Scott-directed “Monopoly“; “Candyland,” which Etan Cohen (”Tropic Thunder”) is scripting for Kevin Lima to direct; and “Ouija,” which is being directed by Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes banner.

Verbinski tracked the “Pirates of the Caribbean” films by directing the animated Paramount feature “Rango” with Johnny Depp.

“Clue” will be turned into a suspenseful concept that Blind Wink senior VP Jonathan Krauss named “A global thriller and trans-media event that uses deductive reasoning as its storytelling engine.”

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