MONOPOLY Movie ??

[benson111]

and the stupid idea of the century goes too.....

Frank Beddor and Ridley Scott for......


"I created a comedic, lovable loser who lives in Manhattan and works at a real estate company and he’s not very good at his job but he’s great at playing Monopoly. And the world record for playing is 70 straight days – over 1,600 hours – and he wanted to try to convince his friends to help him break that world record. They think he is crazy. They kid him about this girl and they're playing the game and there’s this big fight. And he’s holding a Chance card and after they’ve left he says, ‘Damn, I wanted to use that Chance card,’ and he throws it down. He falls asleep and then he wakes up in the morning and he’s holding the Chance card, and he thinks, ‘That’s odd.’"

Yes, this is all going where you think it is. Beddor continued:

"He’s all groggy and he goes down to buy some coffee and he reaches into his pocket and all he has is Monopoly money. All this Monopoly money pours out. He’s confused and embarrassed and the girl reaches across the counter and says, ‘That’s OK.’ And she gives him change in Monopoly money. He walks outside and he’s in this very vibrant place, Monopoly City, and he’s just come out of a Chance Shop. As it goes on, he takes on the evil Parker Brothers in the game of Monolopy. He has to defeat them. It tries to incorporate all the iconic imageries -- a sports car pulls up, there's someone on a horse, someone pushing a wheelbarrow -- and rich Uncle Pennybags, you're going to see him as the maître d' at the restaurant and he's the buggy driver and the local eccentric and the doorman at the opera. There's all these sight gags."

[ffwarrior47]

Wow... ummm... creative?

[Wolfbeckett]

Clue for idiots?

[psychoman]

Ridley Scott? Seriously the man who made Aliens and Blade Runner? This gotta be his next big movie or is he high?

[Lawdog1521]

I call the race car!

[benson111]

I call the race car!

Already got it. Here you can has the thimble.

[citric_bullets]

Wow. They took the joke from the lamest person at every game of Monopoly ("If only this were REAL money! *laughs at self*") and just said "**** it! That's the movie!"

[Boondocker]

Sounds like a great sketch comedy skit.

[Lawdog1521]

Already got it. Here you can has the thimble.

I don't want it. I'll take the dog. Really, how can an inanimate thimble own and manage a hotel chain anyway?

Edit: I'd even take the iron before the thimble.

[Runesmith]

Actually, I'm more interested in seeing this than I am in 99% of the other crappy comedy films I've seen lately.

[bermuddy]

I don't want it. I'll take the dog. Really, how can an inanimate thimble own and manage a hotel chain anyway?

Edit: I'd even take the iron before the thimble.

His name is Ron Thimble and he's a legitimate entrepeneur!

[Lawdog1521]

His name is Ron Thimble and he's a legitimate entrepeneur!

He's a fraud. In the history of the game nobody using him has won. He's the whole reason the cat walks across the board 20 minutes into it.

[Sarge51]

I think it'll be kind of funny. I've always digged monopoly. and hey, it has to be better than those crap "_____ Movie/Flick/Whatever" movies.

[ThrobingCane]

The fad for making movies based of board games was so last century.

[a21schizoidman]

i'd rather they did LIFE man

[Wolfbeckett]

The only board game that needs a movie is Candyland.

[Soratar]

It won't cause one to die... at least they didn't do one on the Game of Life.

[Lawdog1521]

Shoots and ladders. But do it Blair Witch style so it's 2 hours of watching the camera go up the ladder... then down the slide.

[a21schizoidman]

Shoots and ladders. But do it Blair Witch style so it's 2 hours of watching the camera go up the ladder... then down the slide.

meanwhile **** comes flying at you randomly

[Alright_Computer]

The only board game that needs a movie is Candyland.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0429732/

[a21schizoidman]

The fad for making movies based of board games was so last century.

yeah, like Jumanji man

[Wolfbeckett]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0429732/

Okay but in my vision the movie is directed by Tim Burton and is not a kid's movie :P.

[benson111]

Battleship (http://www.firstshowing.net/2009/05/18/universal-hires-peter-berg-to-direct-their-battleship-movie/)is also getting its own movie as well.

[Jglaubman]

Do you have a link to that? That almost seems too ridiculous to believe that millions of dollars are going to be spent on this.

[a21schizoidman]

Battleship (http://www.firstshowing.net/2009/05/18/universal-hires-peter-berg-to-direct-their-battleship-movie/)is also getting its own movie as well.

if done right, this could be good, if done wrong, this could be some cheesy over-budgeted WW2 movie, if done somewhere else, this is gonna be the stupidest movie made since the Monopoly movie


"Captain, the enemy might be over there"
"B3!"
(in the distance) "MISS! :p"
"damn"
"well, their turn"

[BuRn7 CaK3]

and the stupid idea of the century goes too.....

Frank Beddor and Ridley Scott for......

And you've just heard about this now? I've known about this for a little while now.

Stupid idea for a movie though.... Just like The Sims movie.

[a21schizoidman]

Just like The Sims movie.

...Gamer?

[Boondocker]

I may as well be the guy who posts this video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHY8NKj3RKs).

[a21schizoidman]

I may as well be the guy who posts this video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHY8NKj3RKs).

i remember that!

[Wolfbeckett]

if done right, this could be good, if done wrong, this could be some cheesy over-budgeted WW2 movie, if done somewhere else, this is gonna be the stupidest movie made since the Monopoly movie


"Captain, the enemy might be over there"
"B3!"
(in the distance) "MISS! :p"
"damn"
"well, their turn"

I 100% guarantee that at some point, somebody on one side will yell out "They sunk our battleship!" causing everyone in the theater to groan in unison.

[a21schizoidman]

I 100% guarantee that at some point, somebody on one side will yell out "They sunk our battleship!" causing all 3 people in the theater to groan in unison.

def.

at least when someone is playing BINGO and does it, it's funny

oh, and fixed :p

[clashcityrocker10]

I think it's about time for a Scrabble movie.

[BuRn7 CaK3]

...Gamer?

No... That movie is basically based on the Xbox 360 Avatars... that kill.

No, it's totally something else. I don't remember, but I know it wasn't gamer.

[a21schizoidman]

I think it's about time for a Scrabble movie.

no way man, i'm telling you, Connect Four


No... That movie is basically based on the Xbox 360 Avatars... that kill.

No, it's totally something else. I don't remember, but I know it wasn't gamer.

they also had the other game in there where you played someone in real life and lived their life for them

[Alright_Computer]

Yahtzee or Pictionary should be the next one.

[BuRn7 CaK3]

they also had the other game in there where you played someone in real life and lived their life for them

Surrogates... yeah, that's more based on the PS3 Avatars.

The Sims: The Movie (http://movies.ign.com/articles/791/791923p1.html).... I think the guy doing it is the guy who did Norbert, A garfield movie.... so it DEFINITELY wasn't gamer. :p

[clashcityrocker10]

no way man, i'm telling you, Connect Four


Good point.

[BuRn7 CaK3]

I think it's about time for a Scrabble movie.

No, no, no... we need a Go Fish movie.

Got any 3's?

[benson111]

Pick Up Sticks


/thread.

[a21schizoidman]

Surrogates... yeah, that's more based on the PS3 Avatars.


i meant that they had two games in Gamer, Slayers, and Society (http://fandomania.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/gamer5.jpg), Society is an obvious Sims spoof

[BuRn7 CaK3]

Pick Up Sticks


/thread.

Tag. Merry go Round. Heads up 7up. Hide and Seek.

ummmmmm

[Oscar-Rio]

They should do a movie based on Anti-Monopoly. (http://ep.yimg.com/ca/I/boardgames_2081_37093025)

[benson111]

They should do a movie based on Anti-Monopoly. (http://ep.yimg.com/ca/I/boardgames_2081_37093025)

They did.

Bill Gates....Pirates of Silicon Valley (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirates_of_Silicon_Valley)

[Oscar-Rio]

They did.

Bill Gates....Pirates of Silicon Valley (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirates_of_Silicon_Valley)

well played.:)

[Lawdog1521]

Duck, Duck, Goose?

Duck...

Duck...

Duck...

[Baanu_Rass]

This movie will be bad but not in a funny way.

[afterstasis]

it can't be worse than anything gus van sant has crapped out in the past decade.

[wursty]

Id rather watch Ghettopoly (http://web.archive.org/web/20060528112952/http://www.ghettopoly.com/) :)

[Lawdog1521]

it can't be worse than anything gus van sant has crapped out in the past decade.

If I ever meet him I’m slapping him in the face for remaking Psycho.

Edit: oh ya... Goose! You're it. (Runs away)

[ryan12147]

As stupid of an idea it seems, it would be interesting to see what they do with it. I'd also like to point out that the amount of times "and" appears in that press release is really annoyingly high. :p

[ArchangelZero]

A little bit on the Colbert Report about the Battleship and Monopoly movies (around 3:20) (http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/249716/september-22-2009/tip-wag---guns-on-amtrak--fake-lesbians---battleship-audition)

Comedy gold.:D