Monopoly : the movie

[simonjedi]

yep you heard it right...

FILM director Ridley Scott is preparing the most unlikely movie of his career: a feature-length version of the venerable board game Monopoly.

The 69-year-old British film-maker, whose hits include Gladiator and Black Hawk Down, has been offered the pick of young actors to help turn the property game into a comedy thriller.

William Morris, the oldest theatrical agency in Hollywood, has promised Hasbro, which owns Parker Brothers, the manufacturer of Monopoly in the US, that the cream of its stable of 2000 actors will help create a blockbuster movie.

Scarlett Johansson and Kirsten Dunst are being considered for roles. Hasbro, which claims that Monopoly has been played by 750 million people since the 1930s, wants the film to feature "sexy young people" in an attempt to attract teenagers to board games.

http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/story/0,23663,21921816-7486,00.html

"my name is the monopoly guy, husband to a little metal car, father to a
little metal terrier, and i will have my hotel on park lane"

i also hear Paris Hilton has been considered for a role because of she has a get out of jail free card

BA-DUM TISH

 

[Harryz]

Bullshit.......?

Sounds too far-fetched.

 

[Asuka]

That director making THAT movie? This has got to be fake.

What could this movie posibly be about?

 

[-Psy-]

The movie industry is turning to shit. Oh...wait a minute...

 

[hool10]

i also hear Paris Hilton has been considered for a role because of she has a get out of jail free card

Major ownage right there sir! How would this work though? And sexy young people to attract board game players? I thought we stopped playing Candyland when we were 5. Monopoly though you never stop playing. How would this work out though? Jumanji worked out well but Monopoly??!

 

[Deleted member 56031]

The movie industry is turning to shit. Oh...wait a minute...

 

[spookymooky]

Major ownage right there sir! How would this work though? And sexy young people to attract board game players? I thought we stopped playing Candyland when we were 5. Monopoly though you never stop playing. How would this work out though? Jumanji worked out well but Monopoly??!

Jumanjii was a board game based on a movie...which was itself based on a short story.

 

[Lucid]

Bullsh!t.

 

[hool10]

Jumanjii was a board game based on a movie...which was itself based on a short story.

Still a boardgame movie. Way more action than sending Paris to jail or something. How are they going to do this?!

 

[Gunner]

Could be some sort of Horatio Alger type of story I guess.

 

[Bad^Hat]

Oh god, I never thought it would come true.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZNoJ3f428A[/youtube]

(What isn't Robot Chicken relevant to? )