Our Terms & Conditions | Our Privacy Policy
The Monopoly movie is back on the table, and any worries about a board game adaptation might be put to rest as the directing duo behind the critically acclaimed Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves is joining the project. Created in 1935 and drawing heavily from The Landlord Game, Monopoly is one of the most popular (and frustrating) games of all-time. The game is known worldwide and licensed in over 100 countries in multiple languages, with dozens of versions based on popular IPs. The iconic image of the Monopoly Guy or phrases like “get out of jail free card” and the various game pieces have become part of the cultural lexicon. Despite the fact that there is no true story about the game, that doesn’t mean Hollywood hasn’t tried to take this popular IP and turn it into a feature film, and they might have finally found the team to bring it to life.
Deadline reports that John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein have signed on to pen the script to write the Lionsgate Monopoly movie based on the popular Hasbro board game. Daley and Goldstein are best known as the writers and directors of two beloved board game-themed comedies, 2023’s Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves and 2018’s Game Night. The duo also wrote the scripts for Horrible Bosses, Spider-Man: Homecoming, and Vacation Friends…we won’t dwell too much on that last one actually. LuckChap Entertainment, Margot Robbie’s production company, will produce the film. Erin Westerman, co-president of Lionsgate Motion Picture Group, said regarding Daley and Goldstein joining Monopoly:
“We knew LuckyChap would be a beacon for the best talent in town, and Lionsgate & Hasbro are thrilled that Goldstein & Daley have decided to join the fun. We’ve been long-time admirers of their work—telling bold, original, intelligent stories for all audiences. They are the perfect architects for this franchise.”
Related
Fans Outraged to Discover Hasbro Reportedly Scrapped 52-Episode Series Based on Classic ’70s Toy Line
Micronauts was going to get a new animated series, but despite completing all 52 episodes, series creator Eric Rogers revealed its unfortunate fate.
Daley and Goldstein are only attached to writing the script, but the door could be open for them to direct. At the moment, the duo are finishing up their AppleTV+ original comedy film Mayday, which stars Ryan Reynolds, Kenneth Branagh, Maria Bakalova, and Marcin Dorociński. Given Daley and Goldstein’s history working with Hasbro on Dungeons & Dragon: Honor Among Thieves and producer Margot Robbie’s work on the toy turned subject of an Academy Award Best Picture nominee Barbie, Monopoly certainly seems to be in the best hands, a project like this could ask for.
The Long Road to Make ‘Monopoly’![Ryan Gosling Margot Robbie Barbie]()
Serious talk around a Monopoly movie emerged back in 2008, with none other than Ridley Scott set to direct for Universal Pictures as part of a slate of movies based on Hasbro adaptations that eventually only resulted in Battleship, Ouiji, and Ouiji: Origin of Evil. Corpse Bride co-writer Pamela Pettler wrote the script, but in 2012, the development of the film was halted. In 2015, Lionsgate picked up the film rights to Monopoly, intending to make a family-friendly action adventure. In 2019, Kevin Hart joined the Monopoly movie as a producer with the intention to star and brought on Fantastic Four director Tim Story to helm the project. This project never materialized, and in April 2024, hot off of Barbie, Margot Robbie and her husband Tom Ackerley’s production company LuckyChap Entertainment signed on to develop Monopoly.
While a Monopoly movie on the surface certainly makes one believe that Hollywood is truly out of original ideas, investing money into a board game with no story, there is no denying the creativity of the team behind this. Many movies based on toys like The Lego Movie and Barbie, on the surface, sounded like creatively bankrupt ideas, but the right creative team made those movies into worthwhile endeavors that were bursting with creative inspiration. The same can hold true with Monopoly because after how hilarious and creative both Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves and Game Night were, John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein have earned the benefit of the doubt.
Source: Deadline
Images are for reference only.Images and contents gathered automatic from google or 3rd party sources.All rights on the images and contents are with their legal original owners.
Aggregated From –
Comments are closed.