While the question of "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?" may have had its heyday in the '90s, Netflix and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt are prepared to have modern audiences asking the same question.

Netflix has just acquired the live-action feature film rights to the globe-trotting property and immediately set Gina Rodriguez to play the starring role of Carmen Sandiego. Interestingly enough, this is not Rodriguez's first experience with the character, as she is already involved with an animated Carmen Sandiego project due out next year. With a live-action film now in the works, it looks like the Carmen Sandiego property is set to go full steam (or stream) ahead.

Rodriguez will produce the live action film through her I Can and I Will production company, alongside producers Kevin Miller (The Scorpion King) and Caroline Fraser, the Senior Vice President of HMH Productions. Andy Berman (who produced Psych for several years) will serve executive producer. No writer or director has been announced for the live action Carmen Sandiego film at this time.

Carmen Sandiego Gina Rodriguez

Rodriguez and Netflix have already been working on an animated Carmen Sandiego production that was announced in April 2017, where the American actress voices the title role and costars with Stranger Things actor Finn Wolfhard, who voices Carmen's accomplice, Player. The animated series is expected to debut in 2019 in tandem with a new series of books from HMH Productions.

HMH Productions - who also brought on Caroline Fraser as a producer - is the owner of the Carmen Sandiego property, and evidently believes the '90s icon has what it takes to capture the attention of modern audiences once again.

The Carmen Sandiego franchise began in the mid-80's as an educational mystery game designed to teach children geography. When the series exploded in popularity, then-owners Broderbund played up the aspect of hunting down the art-thieving villain of the game, Carmen Sandego, who donned an obvious red trench coat and a similarly colored hat of ample size.

The look became iconic, and the rest is history: the video game brand reached a variety of new mediums in the next 10 years, including comic books, television shows (with 6 Emmy wins), and music albums. The intellectual property has been comparatively dormant in recent times, though Netflix releasing both a live action and an animated show for the brand could certainly change things.

Carmen Sandiego does not currently have a release date.

Credit to Iostastic and the Miami Film Festival for the respective images above.