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March 27 (UPI) -- Gina Rodriguez is set to portray international thief Carmen Sandiego in an upcoming live-action film from Netflix based on the Carmen Sandiego computer game franchise. Rodriguez, known for starring in The CW's Jane the Virgin, is also producing the film through her company I Can and I Will Productions alongside Kevin Misher and Caroline Fraser, the head of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt which owns the Carmen Sandiego property, Variety reported.
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No writer or director is attached to the project.
The live-action film is the second Carmen Sandiego project for Rodriguez who is set to voice the character in an animated series also from Netflix that will debut with a 20-episode first season in 2019. A line of Carmen Sandiego books will launch in 2019 from HMH to coincide with the launch of the series, Deadline reported.
Carmen Sandiego began as a computer game series that followed the thief as she traveled the world in search of treasure. The series later inspired a game show, a book series and a television series which ran for four seasons on Fox from 1994 to 1999.
