ourchair
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...Monopoly.
Ridley Scott's Monopoly.
Based on the best-selling Parker Brothers' game of the same name.
I'm not kidding.
It's old news actually, but I just found out today:
This is ****ing brilliant.
Ridley Scott's Monopoly.
Based on the best-selling Parker Brothers' game of the same name.
I'm not kidding.
It's old news actually, but I just found out today:
Speaking to the LA Times, Scott says:News.Com.Au said: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.
Scott goes on to suggest that focusing on 'our gilded age of greed' is a potential direction.LA Times said:"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."
This is ****ing brilliant.