Ridley Scott Confirms Monopoly Movie Based on the boardgame
When it was said several weeks back that Ridley Scott was making a movie based on the boardgame Monopoly, we outright didn't believe it. It sounded like one of those stories where 'a source' heard Scott was 'circling the project' and was 'in talks', when in fact he'd merely once played the boardgame and also happened to be a director. It sounds about as plausible as Martin Scorsese directing a Paris Hilton biopic or Stephen Sommers mounting a three-hour ode to the tanginess of cheese. But it is confirmed true.
Scott recently spoke to the Los Angeles Times about the movie and had the following to say:
"Monopoly is still the most popular board game -- I might be misquoting! -- in the world. So it's really finding the universe for that game. Because clearly it ought to be humorous and for the family -- the funny way it brings out, particularly when your uncle suddenly gets Park Lane and -- in England, we have Park Lane, Mayfair and Barclay Square, what's it in America? Park and Madison? So you watch people change. You're witness to Jekyll and Hyde. Somewhere in that is a hysterically amusing and I think rather exciting film."
As reasons to make a film, it stills seems a touch flimsy and lacking in plot, but Scott's a director who's made numerous classics out of plots that boil down to a sentence: 'There's a crew on a spaceship with a hidden alien', 'Harrison Ford hunts mutinous humanoid robots in very low-level lighting', 'A gladiator's wife and son have been killed by the emperor and he's right narked about it'. So maybe he can turn this into something. Presumably we'll shortly see a raft of boardgame movies getting the greenlight. While that fills us with utter dread, we'd totally watch Hungry Hungry Hippos: The Movie.
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L: JediBobster
Oh, and Free Parking means just that! doesn'take all money that has been paid in taxes or fines Who started that malarkey?! I wanna string 'em up.
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That's the best way to play! There are few experiences in life as rewarding and gleeful as collecting 2000 just fom landing on Free Parking ... Read More
I'm hoping it runs for four or five hours - with some of the audience walking out half way through due to sheer dice-rolling fatigue.
And I wonder who /b]'s gonna cast as the chappy behind bars? That the BIG question right there.
JEDI BOBSTER
Oh, and Free Parking means just that! It ake all money that has been paid in taxes or fines! Who started that malarkey?! I wanna string 'em up.
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Why? why anyone would pay to see Monopoly:The Movie I don't know, and how long would it run for? what kind of script would it have? which genius thought this through? Hollywood's gone wrong ... Read More
L: asw
Jesus Christ!!!! Is Hollywood so bereft of ideas that we need Monopoly The Movie? Did anyone see that film version of Cluedo? Shit! Expect screen versions of Game of Life, Snakes and Ladders and Ludo to follow.
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Whoa, whoa! Stop right there! There's nothing wrong with Clue. That's one of my childhood favourites. It's got loads of totally decent jokes, it's got suspense, intrigue, three different endings. It's great! ] ... Read More
