Gore Verbinski is slated to direct a big screen version of classic british boardgame Cluedo.
In the game - named Clue in the U.S. - competitors bid to solve the murder of one of a number of colourful characters in a country house.
Cluedo/Clue has racked up sales of more than $1 billion (GBP690 million) in more than 50 countries since it first went on sale back in 1948.
Verbinski will hope his movie fares better than the last attempt to turn Cluedo into a movie - 1985's Clue flopped at the box office.
Despite directing the likes of The Mexican, with Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts, The Ring and The Time Machine it is his Pirates of Caribbean franchise that he is best known for.
Pirate movies were considered a box office curse but, with Johnny Depp on board as Captain Jack Sparrow, Verbinski, steered Curse of the Black Pearl to a $600 million worldwide gross and an unlikely franchise was born.
Dead Man's Chest joined the exclusive group as one of only three movies, the others being Titanic and The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, that had broken the $1 billion barrier.
At World's End was another box office success and a rumours of a fourth movie have been circulating.
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