Two pairs of writers have boarded the film adaptation of the board game “Monopoly” at Lionsgate, LuckyChap and Hasbro Entertainment.
Deadline reports that two different scripts are currently in development – one by “A Minecraft Movie” scribes Neil Widener & Gavin James, and the other by “Dumb Money” writers Rebecca Angelo & Lauren Schuker Blum.
The studios will reportedly have two different outlines and will likely commission a single script from those.
The four writers replace acclaimed “Spider-Man: Homecoming” scribes and “Game Night” directors John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, who closed a deal to pen the movie a year ago – that version being scrapped.
The Monopoly game itself began in 1935, with players setting out to acquire properties and build houses and hotels, all while avoiding bankruptcy and the ‘go directly to jail’ card. Nearly 1 billion copies of the game have been sold.
Multiple attempts to adapt the game into a film have taken place across nearly two decades, with no one able to crack it. Filmmakers Ridley Scott and Tim Story were both linked at one point.
Lionsgate completed its purchase of Hasbro’s film and TV arm eOne in December 2024, which included the rights to “Monopoly”.
