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Now They're Making a Monopoly Movie

"A film for all ages, visually sumptuous, heartwarming, and full of action and adventure."

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Monopoly is one of the most iconic board games ever, but it's still somewhat shocking to learn today that Hunger Games film studio Lionsgate and Hasbro have announced a movie based on it. Then again, a Tetris move is also in development, so basically anything that can happen in Hollywood will happen, it seems.

Andrew Niccol, who earned an Academy Award nomination for The Truman Show, will write the screenplay for the Monopoly movie. According to a press release, the movie will be a "big, crowd-pleasing event film" that should appeal to everyone who has played Monopoly.

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Lionsgate goes on to say that the Monopoly movie will be "a film for all ages, visually sumptuous, heartwarming, and full of action and adventure."

The official plot synopsis is just the worst best:

"The story centers on a boy from Baltic Avenue who uses both Chance and Community in a quest to make his fortune, taking him on a fun, adventure-filled journey. It's about making your own luck, what makes you truly rich and, of course, avoiding Jail time!"

Hasbro claims Monopoly has been played by more than 1 billion people in 114 countries around the world.

My most vivid Monopoly memories are marathon games with my brothers, sisters, and cousins growing up. Things often got heated and I'm pretty sure I never won.

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Bloody hell, I wonder if Uwe Boll is gonna direct it =P

People will make a film out of anything these days, they'll probably have a film called Number 2 in the future, it'll be from a perspective of inside a toilet bowl... you can probably guess the rest hahaaa.

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@deadpen: You need to start watching Uwe Boll movies ;)

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Make it like Wolf of Wall Street and I'm in.

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Can you at least Google some facts before you write it. If you are 'shocked' that this movie is in the works then you must not remember when Universal Pictures bought the rights to a raft of Hasbro games in 2008! Ridley Scott was originally working on it with them. Get up to speed

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/clue/news/1710069/hasbro_universal_roll_dice_on_monopoly_battleship_more/

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The title of this article needs to be preceded or followed by "FFS"

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I can only hope that when the boy gets his monopoly, the camera will zoom out to a family and some disgruntled member flipping the board over and screaming 'horsesh*t'. annnd roll credits

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I'm surprised there isn't an 'article' about the leak ipod and iphone 6s images.

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This is one of the best articles I have ever read on gamespot. Must go preorder a ticket now. We all know the theatres are going to be packed to watch this masterpiece.

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i dont want to live on this planet anymore

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For all ages... meaning for little kids. What makes you truly rich... meaning for really little kids.

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Why are there so many game movies coming out, especially ones based on games with no real plot? Has no-one taken a look at how poor just about every single one of them has been received?

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@Too-DementeD:

Because the American public has been dumbed down that much. Those movies only suck if you try to think about it just look at the pretty colors and enjoy the subliminal programming.

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@Suikogaiden: More like Idoticricy "Brondo, it has what plants crave"

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capitalism the animated movie

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Nobody ever finishes Monopoly. You play until someone gets...

...wait for it...

...a monopoly, then everyone gets pissed off and stops playing. At least, that's how it went down in my house. My dad would always be the winner (The Slumlord, we called him) and he would talk shit the entire game (even while losing).

Good times.

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Here at ____spot we cover everything from movies to SJW political causes.

You want video game news, you say? Nonsense.

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And the Oscar goes to...

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Once upon a time a top hat and a racecar started a business called Comcast.

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Angry Birds? Check.

Minecraft? Check.

Tetris? Check.

Monopoly? now you can check it off.

What's next? Pong?

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@tarp_master: Leisure Suit Larry?

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@tarp_master:You forgot Battleship. It had Rihanna in it, so it couldn't have been all bad...right?

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@tarp_master: Minesweeper.

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@Vojtass:

Ah minesweeper the good old days.

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Wall Street?

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"Monopoly is one of the most iconic board games ever"

True and that is a shame, because Monopoly is one of the worst economic board games in existence. There are so many better ones, but this obsolete shlt is still the most popular.

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@Vojtass: http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=1944

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No.

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I wanted see a connect four movie

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@ryanweinmann: Heh

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For whatever it's worth, Clue is one of my favorite movies of all time.

But then Clue is actually a good board game.

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@Ryusui: The Monopoly movie is actually a red herring.

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@Zloth2: Well, I didn't do it!

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@Ryusui: You just reminded me of that awesome movie's existence. I need to watch it again.

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@BattleStarX: So do I.

*checks Netflix*

*...throws Netflix at a wall in disgust*

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1. Is there a way to downvote this article since this does not need any attention because it's such a horribly stupid subject?

2. Is there a way to keep the people behind this monstrous stupidity from infecting the genepool?

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This is just getting sad.

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They won't stop until every board game is converted to a movie.

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@somberfox: Star Fleet Battles, the movie? OMG that would be awesome! Dump all the fool officers' adventures and just have an hour and a half of space ships blasting each other! (And, to stay faithful to the game, a 20 minute pause where nothing happens at all while the players consult the rule books.)

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@somberfox: Scrabble the Movie. Coming to theaters summer 2016

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"full of action and adventure"

a monopoly movie.

full of action. and adventure.

...i think my brain just fried.

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Is it live-action, or animated? Fingers crossed for live-action, that would be epic.

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Oh, goodie.

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Why not Connect 4 or Yahtzee first? Aren't those also captivating stories? This is just sad. Not to mention, I hate Monopoly. It always seems fun to start then it takes way too long till I eventually lose on purpose so I can be done with it.

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Did they run out of ideas for movies?

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@-Vulpix-: Still better than another remake of classic cult movie.

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...I'm not sure what to say. This feels like one of those articles from a satirical news site... except, ya' know, it's not. I'll hold my judgement for now, but I'm still trying to grasp why this is even a thing.

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It's interesting to see this movie finally get the green light. I remember this being on a sizable list of boardgames getting movie adaptations years ago along with Battleship.

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Do not pass go, do NOT watch this movie.

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