A film adaptation of Monopoly has been in the works for years with various people attached. Why can’t this movie get out of creative jail?
The Big Picture Arguably more famous than any other aspect of the board game at this point is just how long it takes to play Monopoly. Whereas other board games can be completed in a relatively tidy timeframe, Monopoly tends to be like “the music” as described in Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believing”: “it goes on and on and on.” Entire families can get caught in games that last for hours and hours, with minimal excitement or huge developments occurring in that time.
Ridley Scott Really Wanted To Play Monopoly In 2008, hot off the success of Transformers, Hasbro began a long-term partnership with Universal Pictures to produce a slew of other film adaptations of other board games and toys from within the company. One of the first projects announced in this partnership was an absolutely insane idea: Ridley Scott was going to helm Monopoly.
'Battleship's Box-Office Bomb Didn't Help However, despite having a finished story and a prolific director attached to a movie adaptation of Monopoly, this toy feature never got off the ground. It wasn't alone in this fate, of course. A slew of Hasbro/Universal movies never got realized and the only project these two companies brought to the silver screen was the infamous box office dud Battleship.
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