Margot Robbie as the Monopoly Guy
Ryan Gosling as the "Go to Jail" space cop
Steven Yeun as the guy in jail
Timotheé Chalamet as the shoe piece
Daniel Radcliffe as chance card
Seth Rogen and Jonah Hill as the dice
Sydney Sweeney as hotel
It's based on a real railroad. All the locations in the game are based on real locations in Atlantic City, NJ. But in my experience "Reading" is mostly famous for people who have lived in or been to Philadelphia, where the famous Reading Market still operates in the old train station hall.
“Hey Barbie was a hit! It shows there’s still an audience for star-driven theatrical comedies!”
“No we’re going to greenlight more toy-based movies.”
*studio proceeds to make a Fast and Furious style movie and calls it Hot Wheels*
I would like a fast and furious style hot wheels, yes - that’s a great use of toy IP. There is still gold in toy based movies, they just have to give a fuck about the toys and people who like/liked the toys.
Monopoly was _originally_ satire!
(It was based on “[The Landlord’s Game](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Landlord's_Game),” which illustrated the tenets of Georgism, a quasi-religious economic theory that was fiercely opposed to private land ownership. The rules were designed to make the play experience deeply un-fun for all but one player.)
> Georgism, a quasi-religious economic theory
Quasi-religious? I suppose one could describe the US's enthusiasm towards Henry George's writings at the time that way, but its cornerstone, the land value tax, is based on orthodox economics (Friedman called it the least bad tax; Krugman likes them). Land value taxes are even making a comeback, with Detroit poised to implement one.
Fair enough — I'm far from a scholar on the subject, but the little I've read about Georgism and its adherents has always had a moral bent to it. A system for how to live correctly, rather than just a taxation policy.
Go even further and don't reference the boardgame at all. Just companies buying up real hotels with the iconic names, bankrupting locals, and people going to jail for no reason.
Honestly that's the only way it should go, like Clue. It's not a movie about a boardgame, it's a movie about the concepts in the boardgame. So capitalism, cutthroat competition, raising rents, and tax evasion. The beginning of the movie could even take place in the past, during a "land rush".
But not like Battleship, that one missed the mark.
The game it was inspired by (The Landlord's Game) was a critique of private land ownership. I don't think Monopoly itself was intended to have any message though.
Monopoly was intended to dumb down the educational lesson of the original designer's intent. Fun was never the 1st priority of the original, but the publisher just wanted to move units.
So, yeah, publishers fucking over game designers in order to put out an endless stream of remakes and spinoffs isn't just video games, it has been a thing since games have been a retail product. Hey, maybe that's actually just a stronger and more meta critique of capitalism?
Oh, I bet that's exactly what she does with it. She was heavily involved in the direction Barbie took--her production company got the ball rolling on it and brought Gerwig on, not the other way around. I think she intends exactly what you propose.
https://deadline.com/2024/01/barbie-margot-robbie-billion-interview-1235696821/
After all, the game originally was a critique of capitalism that got ripped off by a capitalist. Now we'll get a parody critiquing capitalism and it'll make a billion dollars. How much more meta can you get?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_(game)#:~:text=Monopoly%20is%20derived%20from%20The,particular%2C%20his%20ideas%20about%20taxation.
It’s honestly a pretty good idea and a more fitting thematic follow up to Barbie than a straight up “Barbie 2” would be.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the movie’s plot picks right up from the end of the original film with Barbie’s experience with the real world being interpreted through these insane monopoly rules. There’s a lot of humor that could be derived from the irony between how harsh and unfair the game is being contrasted with how commonplace the scenarios that make it seem unfair are in our everyday lives.
Yeah Ouija one was bad, the sequel though Ouija origin of Evil was actually really good.
I think it was like Cinema snob who said inside the first Halloween movie was part 6 and the sequel was the original John Carpenter's Halloween.
You jest, but according to [this *New Yorker* article](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/07/10/after-barbie-mattel-is-raiding-its-entire-toybox), Mattel has actually asked their creatives to pitch scripts for an UNO movie:
> When I met Marcy Kelly, a cheerful thirty-eight-year-old who has become Mattel’s de-facto screenwriter and punch-up artist, last November, she recalled the moment when Kevin McKeon asked her if she wanted to pitch a script based on the card game: “My reaction was the reaction that everybody has, which is ‘*What?*’ ” McKeon, she said, sent her a slide deck that “highlighted how cross-cultural the game is, and funny things about how seriously people take it, and little seeds of ideas for things to work into a movie,” including “a meme of Beyoncé holding UNO cards.” The mandate, inexplicably, was for a heist movie.
This is Robbie’s production company LuckyChap. There's no confirmation that she'd even be in the movie and it isn't mysterious "Hollwood execs", it's literally Margo calling the shots. She's one of the most powerful people in Hollywood because she produces her own content now.
To be fair, Hasbro started this trend with Transformers.
I mean, we had board game adaptations earlier than that (like Clue) but Transformers really started the milking machine for toy properties.
Exactly! That's why there is a solitary dialogue "shit" in Transformers The Movie (1986). It was purposely written in to make it PG (later showtimes), so children had to attend the movie with a parent, so the parents would be pressured to purchase Transformers toys because the movie was one big advert.
I'd be interested in a Sims movie if they made it more of a psychological horror. Random neighbors show up then are never seen again, sudden urges to do things out of character, objects disappear (pool ladders).
"Were we *ever* in control?"
I love the game changers show! It’s the only game show where the game changes every time and you have to play the game to learn the game. It’s so chaotic
I agree, *Barbie* as it exists is largely because of Margot Robbie, she was like literally the first person involved in the project after talking to the Mattel CEO about her vision for the movie and convincing the CEO to do it. (The other names we heard about in rumours linking them to a Barbie movie before Robbie, like Amy Schumer or Anne Hatheway, were in like entirely different development negotiations that got abandoned.) It was after Robbie's production company was in on the project that she personally pitched the movie to Warner Bros, and then brought on Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig as writers/directors for the project.
If Margot Robbie has a similarly strong vision for a Monopoly movie and has convinced the IP owners and a Warner Bros to give her and other creatives full control to execute on that vision, I have faith in her to make something good. And after how *Barbie* performed, I'd give Margot Robbie and her production company an empty cheque as a Warner Bros executive.
You play by the wrong rules. Stop using Free Parking to put money back in the game, that's not how it works. Auction properties if someone declines to buy. Game will be done in 30 minutes.
The game is depressingly harsh and realistic even with house rules. One person gets lucky dice rolls at the start and buys up the best properties, then the rest of the game is everyone else slowly going broke just to survive while the rich gets richer.
So Monopoly on the Xbox plays by the actual rules. My uncle flipped his shit because I wouldn't upgrade my houses, therefore no one else could build them.
"That's not how the game works! We'd just go grab more pieces!" But a lot more colourful.
From Margot Robbie and Lionsgate comes the most harrowing adventure in cinema history.
The year is 2108. Earth is crumbling and there's nowhere to go. Only 4 people can stop this calamity from happening, but they must overcome their differences and connect wth each other to save the world in time.
"Connect Four: Apocalypse". Based on the classic family game. Coming soon to theaters.
Connect four in a row, before the Earth starts to blow!
>It’s unclear how Robbie and company plan to spin a narrative story from the two-dimensional world of Monopoly. (Who will portray the game’s mascot, Rich Uncle Pennybags? Will they pass Go? Will they collect $200?)
The monopoly man has a name?
He does, and that's about the extent of the game's lore.
Unless you want to include the real life history of the game being a ~~Communist~~ Georgist propaganda tool that was stolen and perverted by greedy capitalists.
Also happened to Upton Sinclair, and Paul Verhoeven, and many many others who made overt criticisms of capitalism that capitalists took and said "Wait actually this is awesome"
>Unless you want to include the real life history of the game being a Communist propaganda tool that was stolen and perverted by greedy capitalists.
That's actually fucking hilarious.
A game teaching you that no matter how hard you work, no matter how well you “play the game”, only to inevitably lose to the consolidation and centralization of capital in a small oligarchy of wealthy aristocratic landowners, no matter how hard you try.
Capitalists: “we can sell this!”
It’s really quite hilariously ironic.
my favorite part of monopoly lore is how they took Jessie J's "Price Tag" song (literally an anti-greed song) to use in a commercial, and changed the "it's NOT about the money, money" part to "it's ALL about the money"
> Communist propaganda tool
Georgist.
I've made that same mistake at least four times. Georgism doesn't believe in communal property/resources at the heart of many definitions of socialism nor the classless society/workers owning the means of production at the heart of most definitions of communism. Its main line of reasoning is that landlords suck and they shouldn't exist. It held that owning property you didn't use but charged other people to use was fundamentally exploitative, wrong, and harmful to the economy.
If you take Georgism in mind and then look at the core mechanics of Monopoly, even with how much they've changed since Lizzie Magie's first draft of it, you can see how that philosophy is the core of it. Meanwhile, its ties to socialism/communism versus American capitalism are more tenuous.
Yeah, the earliest I can put on a timeline was around the time the Battleship movie was announced to not be a joke, so around 15 years ago, but I feel the Monopoly movie was rumoured even earlier than that, it's just the oldest point of reference I remember.
It's been in development hell since 2010. Ridley Scott was attached. There was also plans for a Stretch Armstrong movie, but I don't think they ever had a script for it. [https://www.comingsoon.net/movies/features/65459-exclusive-ridley-scott-on-adapting-monopoly](https://www.comingsoon.net/movies/features/65459-exclusive-ridley-scott-on-adapting-monopoly)
I mean kinda, but if we wanted to actually honor her, the movie would embrace her original goals with the game.
And Uhhh, Highly doubt we are going to get a movie in the spirit of the original philosophy of Monopoly, in that it was created to show the negative effect monopolies had (and thus inherent flaws and negative aspects of capitalism).
I'd be more than happy to be wrong, but doubt it, lmao.
But if the toy part makes the money would it be the wrong conclusion?
It's not wrong to say that Barbie was so successful because it represented a multi billion franchise with a lot of history.
We've had *Barbie* and *Lego* movies. We've had a *Clue* movie and we are getting a *Monopoly* movie. What other extremely popular classic non-electronic toy or game would you like to see made into a movie? Scrabble? Play-doh?
Gi Joe and Transformers are both action figures with cartoons full of lore and backstory to their respective universe. Battleship, on the other hand...
at least a Clue movie made sense conceptually, since its a murder mystery game. And Lego and Barbie are just action figures, so you can just put them in a sandbox world and do what you want.
Monopoly is just pushing it (same that Battleship was)
I hope it’s like Gangs of New York but instead of the Five Points it’s the property color groups and the main characters have to navigate a violent, hyper-capitalistic underworld filled with peril.
A movie about the invention and rise in popularity of the game could be interesting, but I don't know what else they could do with the concept. What's the difference between a monopoly movie and a movie about the history of Atlantic City?
It’s going to be two rich people falling out and buying plots of land on routes the other travels and applying tolls and shit and it’s going to be loosely criticising greed and capitalism.
Don't forget the ham fisted speech near the end that panders to the target demographic but carefully avoids criticizing the corporate entities that both own the IP behind the movie and drove the cultural phenomena that the speech ostensibly criticizes
Awesome-O : “umm Margot Robbie is like a monopoly character or something, and she like falls in love with the guy with the monocle or something?”
Executive: “oh that’s great!! We’ll call it “Can’t buy love”
Lmao What the hell Hollywood Execs: “Barbie was a success. Let’s attach Margot Robbie to every toy/ game adaptation from now on.”
Hi ~~Barbie!~~ Milburn Pennybags
Margot Robbie as the Monopoly Guy Ryan Gosling as the "Go to Jail" space cop Steven Yeun as the guy in jail Timotheé Chalamet as the shoe piece Daniel Radcliffe as chance card Seth Rogen and Jonah Hill as the dice Sydney Sweeney as hotel
Sydney Sweeney as Community Chest, it was right there for you bud. Not really an actor, but I nominate Jimmy Kimmel as Water Works.
Directed by Quentin Tarantino: “Oh man, I shot Marvin Gardens in the face!”
Quentin: "Also, I have a part in this movie and I lick Margot Robbie's feet"
Fuck it. I'm gonna greenlight this.
"I'm a mushroom cloud laying motherfucker, mother fucker." - Park Place, probably.
James Corden as the wheelbarrow cause everyone fucking hates the wheelbarrow
Everytime I've played as the wheelbarrow, I've lost badly. That piece is cursed!
Fucking James fucking cordon at his shite again.
Next we will see him promo the movie by blocking traffic at an LA crossing with a flash mob pushing wheel barrows.
Levar Burton as Reading Railroad. Yes I know it’s not pronounced the same, but still.
Uh... it's not?
It's like "redding".
Ah, so you pronounce the "read" in "Reading" like "read", not "read" or "reading".
Thanks for reminding me why I hate the english language.
As a native English speaker who has learned other languages, I feel so bad for people trying to learn English.
whoa
It's based on a real railroad. All the locations in the game are based on real locations in Atlantic City, NJ. But in my experience "Reading" is mostly famous for people who have lived in or been to Philadelphia, where the famous Reading Market still operates in the old train station hall.
If anyone deserves to be Community Chest it's Alison Brie
We don’t sexualize Annie.
Danny Devito as the guy who invented the game
That would be [Lizzie Magie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizzie_Magie). She has an uncanny resemblance to Danny DeVito
"Hi, I'm Fuckin Lizzie Magie, and I'm gonna teach *you* how ruin friendships with fuckin capitalism!" * Danny DeVito
Chalamet as the shoe is killing me lmao
Timothy Shoelamet
Why do those castings make so much sense lmao
Hollup, let him cook
I hope they cast her as Mr. Monopoly
The moustache is a must.
they can generate free buzz from the "he doesnt actually have a monocle' folk by posting picture of her with one
This really is exactly how modern viral advertising works.
“Hey Barbie was a hit! It shows there’s still an audience for star-driven theatrical comedies!” “No we’re going to greenlight more toy-based movies.” *studio proceeds to make a Fast and Furious style movie and calls it Hot Wheels*
I would like a fast and furious style hot wheels, yes - that’s a great use of toy IP. There is still gold in toy based movies, they just have to give a fuck about the toys and people who like/liked the toys.
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Monopoly was _originally_ satire! (It was based on “[The Landlord’s Game](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Landlord's_Game),” which illustrated the tenets of Georgism, a quasi-religious economic theory that was fiercely opposed to private land ownership. The rules were designed to make the play experience deeply un-fun for all but one player.)
Which it succeeds at. I hate monopoly, almost as much as I hate actual monopolies.
> Georgism, a quasi-religious economic theory Quasi-religious? I suppose one could describe the US's enthusiasm towards Henry George's writings at the time that way, but its cornerstone, the land value tax, is based on orthodox economics (Friedman called it the least bad tax; Krugman likes them). Land value taxes are even making a comeback, with Detroit poised to implement one.
Fair enough — I'm far from a scholar on the subject, but the little I've read about Georgism and its adherents has always had a moral bent to it. A system for how to live correctly, rather than just a taxation policy.
Get ready for a Hungry Hungry Hippos movie starring Margot Robbie, Danny DeVito, Chris Pratt, and Tom Holland.
*These hippos are losing their marbles*
A Lego Hot Wheels movie actually sounds kinda dope. They do great satire.
Make it a self-aware critique of capitalism! It’d probably unironically win a bunch of awards just like Barbie
The game is literally a self aware critique of capitalism anyway
Go even further and don't reference the boardgame at all. Just companies buying up real hotels with the iconic names, bankrupting locals, and people going to jail for no reason.
It's actually a movie about trust busting shot in True Detective (s1) style.
Honestly that's the only way it should go, like Clue. It's not a movie about a boardgame, it's a movie about the concepts in the boardgame. So capitalism, cutthroat competition, raising rents, and tax evasion. The beginning of the movie could even take place in the past, during a "land rush". But not like Battleship, that one missed the mark.
You could get pretty fun with it if you took a mixture of Rat Race and Stranger Than Fiction as inspirations.
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The game was originally a critique of capitalism FWIW
The game it was inspired by (The Landlord's Game) was a critique of private land ownership. I don't think Monopoly itself was intended to have any message though.
Monopoly was intended to dumb down the educational lesson of the original designer's intent. Fun was never the 1st priority of the original, but the publisher just wanted to move units. So, yeah, publishers fucking over game designers in order to put out an endless stream of remakes and spinoffs isn't just video games, it has been a thing since games have been a retail product. Hey, maybe that's actually just a stronger and more meta critique of capitalism?
Oh, I bet that's exactly what she does with it. She was heavily involved in the direction Barbie took--her production company got the ball rolling on it and brought Gerwig on, not the other way around. I think she intends exactly what you propose. https://deadline.com/2024/01/barbie-margot-robbie-billion-interview-1235696821/ After all, the game originally was a critique of capitalism that got ripped off by a capitalist. Now we'll get a parody critiquing capitalism and it'll make a billion dollars. How much more meta can you get? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_(game)#:~:text=Monopoly%20is%20derived%20from%20The,particular%2C%20his%20ideas%20about%20taxation.
It’s honestly a pretty good idea and a more fitting thematic follow up to Barbie than a straight up “Barbie 2” would be. I wouldn’t be surprised if the movie’s plot picks right up from the end of the original film with Barbie’s experience with the real world being interpreted through these insane monopoly rules. There’s a lot of humor that could be derived from the irony between how harsh and unfair the game is being contrasted with how commonplace the scenarios that make it seem unfair are in our everyday lives.
Let me know when UNO is on deck. And the ouija board too f it why not.
We've already gotten like three ouija board movies lmao
Yeah Ouija one was bad, the sequel though Ouija origin of Evil was actually really good. I think it was like Cinema snob who said inside the first Halloween movie was part 6 and the sequel was the original John Carpenter's Halloween.
You jest, but according to [this *New Yorker* article](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/07/10/after-barbie-mattel-is-raiding-its-entire-toybox), Mattel has actually asked their creatives to pitch scripts for an UNO movie: > When I met Marcy Kelly, a cheerful thirty-eight-year-old who has become Mattel’s de-facto screenwriter and punch-up artist, last November, she recalled the moment when Kevin McKeon asked her if she wanted to pitch a script based on the card game: “My reaction was the reaction that everybody has, which is ‘*What?*’ ” McKeon, she said, sent her a slide deck that “highlighted how cross-cultural the game is, and funny things about how seriously people take it, and little seeds of ideas for things to work into a movie,” including “a meme of Beyoncé holding UNO cards.” The mandate, inexplicably, was for a heist movie.
The plot is just going to be 2 hours of everyone arguing about the rules.
This is Robbie’s production company LuckyChap. There's no confirmation that she'd even be in the movie and it isn't mysterious "Hollwood execs", it's literally Margo calling the shots. She's one of the most powerful people in Hollywood because she produces her own content now.
Can’t wait to see her star along side Daniel Day Lewis in the Lincoln Log movie
In this case, Margot is the exec
I'll take a Margoverse
To be fair, Hasbro started this trend with Transformers. I mean, we had board game adaptations earlier than that (like Clue) but Transformers really started the milking machine for toy properties.
Transformers was a cartoon and a comic book though.
In the same guise as He-Man or Pokemon. The shows were made to sell the toys and games and they happened to be really good
Exactly! That's why there is a solitary dialogue "shit" in Transformers The Movie (1986). It was purposely written in to make it PG (later showtimes), so children had to attend the movie with a parent, so the parents would be pressured to purchase Transformers toys because the movie was one big advert.
Battleship
First Barbie, then the Sims, now Monopoly. Is Margot Robbie the new face of feature-length advertisements?
I'd be interested in a Sims movie if they made it more of a psychological horror. Random neighbors show up then are never seen again, sudden urges to do things out of character, objects disappear (pool ladders). "Were we *ever* in control?"
[Like this one?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMXME2pm83c)
Damn. College humor. There's a name I haven't heard in a while.
Probably because they changed their name a while back. To Dropout or something.
Dropout is legitimately great. The only subscription I pay for (though admittedly I mooch a couple others.
Same, I love Dropout. Worth the sub for Dimension 20 alone, but I also enjoy a Game Changer / Um Actually / Make Some Noise / etc
I love the game changers show! It’s the only game show where the game changes every time and you have to play the game to learn the game. It’s so chaotic
Missed opportunity to have them start speaking ~~in tongues~~ Simlish.
She will revive the Lego movie franchise somehow and people will make Thanos memes of her with these films as her stones
How do you revive something that is already awesome?
Well, not releasing film entries so close together the audience speed-runs franchise fatigue would be a start.
It's not part of a team, yet, so it's not cool.
Can we somehow get her to do a Bionicle movie? Bring them back!
In all fairness let her get that producer bag. She clearly knows what she's doing after Barbie.
I agree, *Barbie* as it exists is largely because of Margot Robbie, she was like literally the first person involved in the project after talking to the Mattel CEO about her vision for the movie and convincing the CEO to do it. (The other names we heard about in rumours linking them to a Barbie movie before Robbie, like Amy Schumer or Anne Hatheway, were in like entirely different development negotiations that got abandoned.) It was after Robbie's production company was in on the project that she personally pitched the movie to Warner Bros, and then brought on Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig as writers/directors for the project. If Margot Robbie has a similarly strong vision for a Monopoly movie and has convinced the IP owners and a Warner Bros to give her and other creatives full control to execute on that vision, I have faith in her to make something good. And after how *Barbie* performed, I'd give Margot Robbie and her production company an empty cheque as a Warner Bros executive.
Wasn’t she only supposed to be involved in the production side of The Sims?
Which is also the case here: her production company is making the film.
This could be the case. I only heard she's involved
“Feature length advertisement.” Now that’s a term.
No joke she might have a movie deal with WB and they’re just going to churn these out
If the Monopoly movie isn't 5 hours long and half the audience just gets up and leaves at the 3 hour mark, I don't want to see it.
You play by the wrong rules. Stop using Free Parking to put money back in the game, that's not how it works. Auction properties if someone declines to buy. Game will be done in 30 minutes.
WTF how have the wrong rules been passed down through 3 generations of my family and no one has ever noticed.
Because the game gets real mean real fast with the official rules, so they got softened for grandma and stuck
The game is depressingly harsh and realistic even with house rules. One person gets lucky dice rolls at the start and buys up the best properties, then the rest of the game is everyone else slowly going broke just to survive while the rich gets richer.
Almost like the point of Monopoly is that capitalism sucks and it requires that you either become a greedy ass or get crushed by someone who is one.
So Monopoly on the Xbox plays by the actual rules. My uncle flipped his shit because I wouldn't upgrade my houses, therefore no one else could build them. "That's not how the game works! We'd just go grab more pieces!" But a lot more colourful.
Don’t feel bad. Monopoly is one of the most house ruled board games ever.
I don’t think I could pry free parking out of my friends and families hands. The kids get addicted young.
if the movie doesn't end with someone flipping the table in a rage I want a refund
From Margot Robbie and Lionsgate comes the most harrowing adventure in cinema history. The year is 2108. Earth is crumbling and there's nowhere to go. Only 4 people can stop this calamity from happening, but they must overcome their differences and connect wth each other to save the world in time. "Connect Four: Apocalypse". Based on the classic family game. Coming soon to theaters. Connect four in a row, before the Earth starts to blow!
Tic Tac Noooooo!
I'd watch that.
Random but ok Just throwing this out there, Danny DeVito as the monopoly man
I want to see it be Robbie, just to see heads explode. Only requirement is the monocle and top hat.
monocle?
Common Mandela Effect… Rich Uncle Pennybags has never had a monocle
Maybe people are confusing him with Mr. Peanut.
You're saying follow with a Margot Robbie Mr. Peanut movie? Genius! Have a script on my desk by Friday!
What is this, a crossover movie?
Robbie Robbie what now?
He has no monocle 🧐
Make it ONLY a monocle and top hat, and I'm in.
She’s gonna be dressed as ol’ Pennybags, sitting in a hot tub again, and explain to us the dangers of Monopolistic Capitalism!
Danny Devito as Frank Reynolds as The Warthog as the monopoly man please
And his butler, Mr. Covington.
I'm the Cash Man. I go in and throw cash at people.
Instead of 4 railways you can by its 4 tolls. Because you gotta pay the toll before you get to hole.
It’ll be will Ferrell
Can she make an Ark Nova movie so I can finally understand its rules ?
Let's get a Twilight Imperium film out of her first.
Just have Margot Robbie play the game. That's a good 5 to 7 hour mini series alone. And that's when all the players already know the rules
They already made a superior Monopoly movie. It’s called The Big Short.
They also made a monopoly movie ***with Margot Robbie in it*** called The Wolf of Wall Street.
She was also in the big short
This is getting out of hand. Now there are two of them!
>It’s unclear how Robbie and company plan to spin a narrative story from the two-dimensional world of Monopoly. (Who will portray the game’s mascot, Rich Uncle Pennybags? Will they pass Go? Will they collect $200?) The monopoly man has a name?
Milburn Pennybags is his full name. Additional fun fact: Cap'n Crunch's full name is Horatio Magellan Crunch
Scooby Doo's full name is Scoobert Doo
Scrappy Doo's full name is Scrappy Cornelius Doo
He does, and that's about the extent of the game's lore. Unless you want to include the real life history of the game being a ~~Communist~~ Georgist propaganda tool that was stolen and perverted by greedy capitalists.
Also happened to Upton Sinclair, and Paul Verhoeven, and many many others who made overt criticisms of capitalism that capitalists took and said "Wait actually this is awesome"
I call that the Hot Topic Effect.
>Unless you want to include the real life history of the game being a Communist propaganda tool that was stolen and perverted by greedy capitalists. That's actually fucking hilarious.
A game teaching you that no matter how hard you work, no matter how well you “play the game”, only to inevitably lose to the consolidation and centralization of capital in a small oligarchy of wealthy aristocratic landowners, no matter how hard you try. Capitalists: “we can sell this!” It’s really quite hilariously ironic.
Everyone sees themselves as the eventual winner, not as the 5 other people playing the game who checked out an hour ago.
my favorite part of monopoly lore is how they took Jessie J's "Price Tag" song (literally an anti-greed song) to use in a commercial, and changed the "it's NOT about the money, money" part to "it's ALL about the money"
> Communist propaganda tool Georgist. I've made that same mistake at least four times. Georgism doesn't believe in communal property/resources at the heart of many definitions of socialism nor the classless society/workers owning the means of production at the heart of most definitions of communism. Its main line of reasoning is that landlords suck and they shouldn't exist. It held that owning property you didn't use but charged other people to use was fundamentally exploitative, wrong, and harmful to the economy. If you take Georgism in mind and then look at the core mechanics of Monopoly, even with how much they've changed since Lizzie Magie's first draft of it, you can see how that philosophy is the core of it. Meanwhile, its ties to socialism/communism versus American capitalism are more tenuous.
It will be a "capitalism bad" story that rakes in $800M+ at the box office. The irony.
I feel like I’ve been hearing about a monopoly movie since I was a little kid
They already made it and it was great: Succession on HBO
You know Brian cox could be a great monopoly man
You just lost "Boar on the Floor", go back 3 spaces.
Yeah, the earliest I can put on a timeline was around the time the Battleship movie was announced to not be a joke, so around 15 years ago, but I feel the Monopoly movie was rumoured even earlier than that, it's just the oldest point of reference I remember.
It's been in development hell since 2010. Ridley Scott was attached. There was also plans for a Stretch Armstrong movie, but I don't think they ever had a script for it. [https://www.comingsoon.net/movies/features/65459-exclusive-ridley-scott-on-adapting-monopoly](https://www.comingsoon.net/movies/features/65459-exclusive-ridley-scott-on-adapting-monopoly)
The idea that Ridley Scott was at one point attached to a movie about the Monopoly board game is so fucking funny
I’m not sure we need a monopoly movie. We have monopoly in real life. The Rich gets richer, the poor gets poorer.
This movie is going to go on forever
And lead to several divorces.
Randall park is still right https://deadline.com/2023/08/randall-park-barbie-success-more-women-films-not-toys-1235520344/
Monopoly was kinda invented by a woman, Lizzie Magie. So both could be true here.
I mean kinda, but if we wanted to actually honor her, the movie would embrace her original goals with the game. And Uhhh, Highly doubt we are going to get a movie in the spirit of the original philosophy of Monopoly, in that it was created to show the negative effect monopolies had (and thus inherent flaws and negative aspects of capitalism). I'd be more than happy to be wrong, but doubt it, lmao.
Yeah would take a miracle, but the "Monopoly movie" going full Georgism / anti-landlord would be kind of awesome.
Oh totally, this is one of those "I'd be so fucking happy to eat my words" situations. It just doesn't seem likely.
Why wouldn’t they? If they wanted to follow the formula of Barbie, they would do something that’s introspective and teaches the audience something.
Seriously, it's gonna be a hollywood celeb, ham-fisted criticism of corporations having too much power.
But if the toy part makes the money would it be the wrong conclusion? It's not wrong to say that Barbie was so successful because it represented a multi billion franchise with a lot of history.
We've had *Barbie* and *Lego* movies. We've had a *Clue* movie and we are getting a *Monopoly* movie. What other extremely popular classic non-electronic toy or game would you like to see made into a movie? Scrabble? Play-doh?
Also GiJoe, Transformers, Battleship were all movies
Gi Joe and Transformers are both action figures with cartoons full of lore and backstory to their respective universe. Battleship, on the other hand...
Settlers of Catan being a screwball comedy about trading sheep for wheat.
Directed by Peter Jackson
Don’t forget Battleship.
Hungry Hungry Hippos ....w/ John Ratzenberger, as the voice of the green Hippo.
I just can't stop eating em doc
at least a Clue movie made sense conceptually, since its a murder mystery game. And Lego and Barbie are just action figures, so you can just put them in a sandbox world and do what you want. Monopoly is just pushing it (same that Battleship was)
Snakes and Ladders with Sam Jackson
Candyland or the Game of Life.
A Candyland movie could easily be super unhinged and awesome.
Fr Candyland the movie sounds like it would be easily adaptable to the screen. Jumanji meets Willy Wonka.
I'm actually surprised there isn't a Play Doh universe. The world building capabilities are endless, similar to Lego.
There aren’t as many adult fans, though.
If this somehow works, next should be one about Risk.
That’d basically be Battleship in the 19th century, starring some hunk like Channing Tatum.
Margot is the new 90s Brendan Frasier.
They’ll never get my story right.
Is she going to play the Monopoly guy?
She will play the shoe
she will be the thimble
That’s the Rocks role
No thanks, I wait movie about UNO
Aren't we getting a UNO heist movie or something?
I hope its not the same, "man gets sucked into world" concept that was floating around.
I hope it’s like Gangs of New York but instead of the Five Points it’s the property color groups and the main characters have to navigate a violent, hyper-capitalistic underworld filled with peril.
Modern cinema is a hellscape
A movie about the invention and rise in popularity of the game could be interesting, but I don't know what else they could do with the concept. What's the difference between a monopoly movie and a movie about the history of Atlantic City?
It’s going to be two rich people falling out and buying plots of land on routes the other travels and applying tolls and shit and it’s going to be loosely criticising greed and capitalism.
Don't forget the ham fisted speech near the end that panders to the target demographic but carefully avoids criticizing the corporate entities that both own the IP behind the movie and drove the cultural phenomena that the speech ostensibly criticizes
If the plot isn't a scathing takedown of landlords and capitalism, we fucking riot
Awesome-O : “umm Margot Robbie is like a monopoly character or something, and she like falls in love with the guy with the monocle or something?” Executive: “oh that’s great!! We’ll call it “Can’t buy love”
Get back to me when you adapt CROSSFIYYYYAH!!
They already made this movie it's called "there will be blood"
FIND ME A TOY FOR MARGOT TO PLAY. - Execs
Oh come on! Who the fuck asked for this?
No one, which is the same group of people who ask for every single movie ever
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BATTLESHIP 2: The BATTLE FOR PARK PLACE
If this doesn't end with an argument and flipping the table then it isn't real monopoly.
Is she going to be Community Chest?