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Hokeyboy 11-12-08 09:06 AM

I'm hoping they cast Shia LeBeuf as the Thimble. :thumbsup:

pinata242 11-12-08 09:07 AM

In a world where the rich get richer and the poor mortgage their souls, one man is taking the fight to the streets. A rebel that relies on Chance and Free Parking to stay one step ahead of the power players and fat cats suddenly finds himself rolling the dice and risking it all in one final play. Can he avoid rolling doubles for the third time?

Rockmjd23 11-12-08 09:29 AM

I want to see the elaborate CGI used for Water Works.

sauce07 11-12-08 10:04 AM

Worst. Idea. Evah.

Geofferson 11-12-08 10:07 AM

Wow -- sounds like a lame idea to me.

Sean O'Hara 11-12-08 10:32 AM

Tony Scott, surely. Surely?

Ronnie Dobbs 11-12-08 10:57 AM

Roman Polanski was originally going to direct it but he still hasn't turned in his "go directly to jail card" zing!

Groucho 11-12-08 11:08 AM

This will be like a horror movie with people yelling at the screen: "No, don't trust that dude! Don't give him Boardwalk...I don't care if he's offering three trips around the board. He'll screw you eventually!!!"

iamiam 11-12-08 11:12 AM

It will be an interactive movie, a la "Clue".

Jacoby Ellsbury 11-12-08 12:32 PM

maybe they can get that guy from ace ventura 2 to reprise his role as the monopoly guy

Cartload 11-12-08 01:28 PM

Who's gonna play the shoe?

Hokeyboy 11-12-08 02:06 PM


Originally Posted by Cartload (Post 9068109)
Who's gonna play the shoe?

Dakota Fanning, you Milton-Bradley sycophant. :mad:

leacha 11-12-08 02:17 PM


Originally Posted by DeputyDave (Post 9067268)
What kind of plot could possibly attract Scott as a director, especially comparing it to Blade Runner?

$$$$

I think when Parker Brothers saw that some video games were turned into big screen movies an exec. thought the same can be done with the board games.

Sounds like a bad idea but, I'll leave judgment until the final product. I remember when Heath Ledger was cast as the Joker and everyone went apesh*t. The end result may surprise you.

NoirFan 11-12-08 02:30 PM


Originally Posted by leacha (Post 9068196)
$$$$

http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/d...oly-money1.jpg

Arthur Dent 11-12-08 02:44 PM


Originally Posted by Matt Millheiser (Post 9067425)
I'm hoping they cast Shia LeBeuf as the Thimble. :thumbsup:

:lol:

Dan 11-12-08 03:36 PM


Originally Posted by Sanjuro37 (Post 9067364)
It's gonna be like Blade Runner. Great, so it'll suck for ten years until they put out a better cut, and it'll take 15 more to hammer out the perfect version. The narration's going to be the worst:

"As I strolled along the board I bought up everything I could afford. Soon I'd amassed an empire, a hotel on every block and a crop of new houses. I had this cit in the palm of my hands. Meanwhile my rival the baseball glove kept landing on my property and having to pay me. I couldn't help but notice he wasn't very sporting about the rules. I guess that's what happens when you leave it up to Chance.

Brilliant!!!


This whole "Monopoly" movie idea reminds me of "Coupon: The Movie":
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asianxcore 11-12-08 05:14 PM

Anyone else automatically think of...

http://www.mutantreviewers.com/racenature3.jpg

LickTheABCs 11-12-08 05:19 PM

Yay, now hopefully the "Hungry Hungry Hippos" and "Barrel of Monkeys" movies aren't too far behind.

Mabuse 11-12-08 05:25 PM

All jokes asside, my best guess of how this is being handled is that Scott wants to make some kind of satire/allagory of American business with a character like Gordon Gecko from Wall Street, and the feeling is that buy licensing the name "Monopoly" the name recognition would give the film some cache with audiences. Maybe even a period film (wasn't the game invented in the 1920's) about the exploitive business practices of American trusts and monopolies. There Will Be Blood but with real estate.

Damn, I should work in Hollywood.

tylergfoster 11-13-08 03:27 AM


Originally Posted by Mabuse (Post 9068615)
All jokes asside, my best guess of how this is being handled is that Scott wants to make some kind of satire/allagory of American business with a character like Gordon Gecko from Wall Street, and the feeling is that buy licensing the name "Monopoly" the name recognition would give the film some cache with audiences. Maybe even a period film (wasn't the game invented in the 1920's) about the exploitive business practices of American trusts and monopolies. There Will Be Blood but with real estate.

Damn, I should work in Hollywood.

The problem, of course, is that no movie that could really be taken seriously if it has the fucking Monopoly logo plastered all over it. Nothing would have killed a movie with the tone of "There Will Be Blood" like "Based on the game "Don't Wake Daddy" by Milton Bradley." in the credits.

The Bus 11-13-08 09:33 AM

PENNYBAGS: [Slowly, deliberately] I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Boots mortgaging property to tiny dogs. Apartments torched on Baltic Avenue just for the insurance money. I watched someone roll triple sixes and land on Free Parking where a Get Out Of Jail Free card had been tossed into the kitty. All those moments will be lost in time, like a bank error in your favor. Time to die. [As the rain continues to fall, he drops his head and silently expires.]

http://alexbalk.tumblr.com/post/59323289/bladerunner

:lol:

Zen Peckinpah 11-13-08 04:02 PM

It was also a game show.


pinata242 11-13-08 04:22 PM

I'm sorry, but I was riveted so here are Parts 2 and 3!




Solid Snake 11-13-08 04:30 PM

oh my fucking god....I can see that this show never made it cuz I never heard of it here. Based on what wikipedia tells me, it was only around from June-Sept. in 1990... I was four...probably watching Transformers reruns..

tylergfoster 11-14-08 09:16 PM

That show was AWESOME. I wish it was still on.


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