The director of cult classics like Aliens, Blade Runner and Gladiator is turning his attention on creating a movie based on a board game. Yes, that’s right on Monopoly!
Ridley Scott recently spoke to the Los Angeles Times about the film and had the following to say:
“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.”
You may think that Monopoly: The Movie will lack plot or characters, but Scott’s a director who’s made numerous classics out of plots that boil down to a sentence: ‘There’s a crew on a spaceship with a hidden alien’, ‘Harrison Ford hunts mutinous humanoid robots in very low-level lighting’, ‘A gladiator’s wife and son have been killed by the emperor and he’s right narked about it’.
So perhaps he has the ability to turn this into something worth watching. Forgot about adapting video games, the next big thing is board games! I can see it now - coming soon to a screen near you, ‘Snakes and Ladders’!
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Yink says:
yeah if any one can do it, Ridley is the man.
Aug 06, 2007, 4:16 pmflo says:
wow wierd idea, indeed ^^
Aug 06, 2007, 4:41 pmBut as you said, I would trust Ridley Scott .
He’s a damn good director , so there must be something worthy behind this : )