Netflix rolls dice on Hasbro, IPC, B17 competition show based on boardgame Clue

Netflix has greenlit a competition series based on the murder mystery boardgame Clue/Cluedo, with Hasbro Entertainment and Sony-backed companies The Intellectual Property Corporation (IPC) and B17 Entertainment producing.

Jeff Gaspin

The format will see contestants facing “physical and mental challenges to collect clues before stepping into a real-life game of deduction and deception.” To win, players have to identify the who, where and what of the crime, with familiar characters making an appearance including Colonel Mustard, Miss Scarlett and Professor Plum.

Executive producers on the project include Gabriel Marano and Zachary Edwin for Hasbro Entertainment, Eli Holzman and Aaron Saidman for IPC and Rhett Bachner and Brien Meagher for B17.

For Hasbro Entertainment, which is the content arm of toy giant Hasbro, the series is part of a wider strategy to produce series and films based on some of its most popular and enduring brands and franchises. Two of its other properties, Trivial Pursuit and Scrabble, have also been adapted as gameshows for US broadcaster The CW, with both shows being renewed for second seasons earlier this year.

Another of Hasbro’s most enduring properties, Monopoly, is also set to be adapted by Netflix, which secured the rights in a competitive bidding process earlier this year.

A premiere date for the Clue series has not yet been announced.

“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, Netflix’s VP of unscripted series.

“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.”