People

By Guy D. Garcia

Colonel Mustard in the library with the wrench. As any child detective can attest, guessing the murderer, the place of death and the fatal weapon makes Clue a humdinger of a whodunit and a longtime Parker Brothers' best-selling board game. Never known to let a best seller get away, Hollywood has just begun filming a movie based on the game. The first clues fans will want, of course, are who plays the familiar players: Lesley Ann Warren (Miss Scarlett), Martin Mull (Colonel Mustard), Madeline Kahn (Mrs. White), Michael McKean (Mr. Green), Christopher Lloyd (Professor Plum) and Eileen Brennan (Mrs. Peacock). These six suspects are joined in the movie by six new characters led by Butler Tim Curry. The plot is said to contain enough hints for figuring out who did what where. But until Clue is released early next year, nobody is squealing -- certainly not the actors, who have yet to film or even see the script finale. Says Warren: "It's all very suspicious. No one knows what anyone else is up to." Everyone is nonetheless promising a rollicking comedy thriller packed with mirth and mayhem. If not, it's the producers in the toilet with the bomb.