board games

So a few days ago en route to see Star Trek at the Wachovia IMAX in Raleigh, good friend/fellow blogger Phillip Arthur and I stopped by HyperMind in Burlington, ‘cuz Phillip is a fellow geek in good standing and I thought he’d get a kick out of this place, and we had plenty of time before the 10 p.m. showing (we also hooked up with Chad Austin, who really needs to update his blog sometime ‘specially since he now has only 26 days left as a free man before taking the vows). But anyway…

While we were in HyperMind, I spotted this game box and took a picture of it with my new cellphone. It’s something called Zombies!!!, the “Director’s Cut” version. And I’ve been told that it’s a pretty popular tile-based strategy game. But what caught my eye was the chainsaw-wielding protagonist fighting off the undead ...

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The last time I heard any news about Gore Verbinski (who helmed the Pirates of the Caribbean movies for Disney), he was gearing up to direct the big-screen adaptation of the video game BioShock. And Universal was said to be wanting it to come out in the summer of 2010.

Apparently, plans have changed.

The Hollywood Reporter is breaking the word that Verbinski will be working for Universal all right… but on a feature film version of the board game Clue.

I wish to heck that I were making this up.

Look, here’s the thing: Clue has already been done! It was a movie that came out in December 1985 starring Tim Curry, Christopher Lloyd, Madeline Kahn and Martin Mull (among others). And it was a good movie, as its now-cult status has proven. If you’ve never had the pleasure, I would definitely recommend getting it via NetFlix ...

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