Actually, Steven Spielberg gets The 39 Clues, or at least the screen rights to the “multiplatform adventure series to be launched in the fall by Scholastic Media,” Variety reports. A planned 10-book series with additional elements including an online game and collectible cards, Clues is about “the most powerful family in the world, the Cahills, who count Napoleon and Houdini among their relatives. Readers will be challenged to discover the source of the family's powers, revealed through 39 clubs that are hidden around the world and scattered throughout history.” Spielberg already has a full plate, including an adaptation of Tintin and a Lincoln biopic starring Liam Neeson, but anything that keeps him away from another Indiana Jones movie is fine by us.
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