Ridley Scott to make Monopoly: The Movie

When the rumours circulated that Ridley Scott was making a movie based on the family favourite board game monopoly, I nearly choked on my coffee. Quickly dispelling the rumours I got on with the real news. But, it looks like I was wrong to ignore the rumours, Ridley Scott is actually making a monopoly movie.

Scott recently spoke to the LA Times about the movie. He 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.”

I can’t see how even someone as talented as Scott will be able conjure up a plot from a board game! Mind you, Ridley Scott has mastered the art out of making films whose plots boil down to a single sentence, for instance: ‘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’.

Maybe I should give this man the benefit of the doubt, but I sincerely hope that this doesn’t start a trend of board game movies. Mind you, I’m sure Twister: The Movie could be pretty interesting!

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