03 Mar, 2010
Monopoly The Movie?
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In: Games|News
Yes, you read that correctly. According to the AMC news feed a film version of the classic game Monopoly
is in the works.
It looks like Ridley Scott (of Alien
and Black Hawk Down
) is slated to direct the film which plans to release sometime in 2012. (A surer sign of that year’s prophesied Apocalypse.)
Now I do love my board games, and I’m a big movie fan too, but this one I can’t seem to get my head around. While I can only see the film taking place on the New Jersey streets highlighted in the game, what can the plot of this film entail?
Immediately I picture films like Wall Street (20th Anniversary Edition)
and Glengarry Glen Ross
and the corporate shinanigans that occurs in both. However, I would expect a film based on “The World’s Favorite Family Game” to have a family-friendliness that neither of those films holds.
Overall I’m just confused about this news. What are your thoughts? Let us know in the comment section below.
Sources: AMC, Worstpreviews, Filmofilia
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Mark (aka mercutiom) is the Tech geek of the crew and a superior strategist to boot. He may not win every game, but he’ll probably beat you the second time around. He also runs and maintains this site, the Flickr group, the Twitter account, and pretty much everything else that’s web based. Other than gaming Mark is a supervisor for a local web hosting company, a freelance web designer, and writer. He lives in Tempe, AZ with three loud roommates and two louder dogs.
