Pirates Of The Caribbean Slash

Universal tries to kill 'Clue,' but Gore Verbinski still wants audiences to ...

Turns out Universal Studios doesn't care to know who killed whom in the conservatory or ballroom or library with the candlestick or rope or wrench.

According to Slash Film , the production company passed on the opportunity to stay involved with the upcoming movie adaptation of the popular board game, Clue .

Deadline reports that Universal signed a six-year film deal with Hasbro in 2008, and that a new adaptation of the murder mystery game was among the hot properties.

The project has been slowly chugging along and finally secured Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski, who, surprisingly enough, plans to stay on board the film.

Slash Film says that the director, also the visionary behind this year's animated feature, Rango , is planning to keep the film afloat with Hasbro and his own production company, Blind Wink.

A campy movie adaptation of the ensemble whodunit was made in 1985 with stars like Tim Curry and Christopher Lloyd, and Deadline reports that the new version won't just be a rehashing of the film or strict adaptation of the board game's instruction manual and will instead take general themes but pit them against a broader, global setting.

Verbinski is being joined by Flash Gordon screenwriters Burk Sharpless and Matt Sazama, but no actors have been cast.

The board-game-to-big-screen phenom isn't looking to stall anytime soon, either. The first trailer for Battleship was just released, while Slash Film reports that film adaptations of Candyland and Monopoly are also in the works.

_ailcia_fics: Pirates Of The Caribbean - Jack Sparrow/Will Turner slash

A/N: Hope you like this - it's something I wrote after seeing the film *yet* again the other day. I haven't read anything like this yet, and so am hoping it's not percieved as me jumping onto any ol' bandwagon or anything. This is one of the few films I think I am able to write slash for - anything else and I seem to have some sort of mental block and it doesn't feel right to me. But Pirates is perfectly fine for some reason! Maybe it's the two gorgeous fellas helping me along there...

As I said in the summary, I am not going to explain how our two pirates got here, nor where they're going - it is just a timeless moment in the grand scheme of things, where the affection Jack feels for Will is displayed when no one else is awake.

Anyway, hope you think it's sweet and relevant (and not merely an Orlando/Johnny obsessive-fest as so many other slash fics seem to be... though I will own up to that being the reason I wrote this in the first place!), and will review at the end so I know whether to pack my boots away when it comes to writing this sort of thing or not - you see, the last slash story I wrote got no reviews - [beat]... all together, now... *awwww* (and, also, hint hint).

Smoothly done, no?

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Captain Jack Sparrow lay on his side calmly, bordering on the hazy line between slumber and thoughts, dark eyes - now free of their kohl outlinings- fixed upon the still form of the young whelp who slept next to him, his face half-burrowed in the Jack's chest.

It was almost as though the pirate didn't want to go to sleep for fear of missing out on a moment of appreciation - as for the love of his rum, he simply couldn't take his attention off of Will's sleeping form. His brown eyes kept trailing by their own will down the long, elegant line of the blacksmith's neck, and over the soft brown curls that fell forward, partially covering this magnificent body part; they kept searching the peaceful face with it's high cheekbones and fine features - odd that such an aristocratic face should be born of a baker and a pirate. But it had always been the same with William, Will's father... if one had disregarded his clothes, hair and the general feeling of electricity in air all about him, one coud have sworn he was a lord of some sort.

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