A decade ago, several film adaptations of board games were in the works including films based on “Hungry Hungry Hippos” and “Monopoly”.
While there are still a good number of people very keen to see the still unmade “great hippo horror movie,” neither of those aforementioned films has come to fruition.
“Monopoly,” in particular, has been kicking around for fifteen years, with Ridley Scott attached to direct the project and how he wanted it to be a tale about the “nightmare of greed”.
More recent times saw “Ride Along” director Tim Story and star Kevin Hart tackling the property, which would follow a young man’s quest to make a fortune.
Out promoting horror comedy “The Blackening,” Story confirmed to Slashfilm that the “Monopoly” film is still out there and is “still in development”. The obvious issue it has is that it’s hard to come up with the right approach for the material:
“It’s a difficult one to find the right thing with. So we have been talking to writers, it is still being developed, and hopefully, we’ll get to a blueprint that we can kind of get something made.
Trust me, I wish I could tell you. That’s been our problem. Really, it’s one of those ideas that you can go [to] so many different places with it.
And then, of course, with money, finance movies are not easy to make entertaining. So there’s a lot going on here, and the ball keeps being moved, or I should say the basket keeps being moved. So fingers crossed, hopefully. Trust me, one day I hope I can articulate exactly what it might be.”
As of 2015, eighty years after its first release, the game sold an estimated 275 million copies worldwide. Meanwhile, Story’s “The Blackening” opens in cinemas this Friday.
