“I could not imagine a better production team for this beloved and iconic brand than LuckyChap,” Lionsgate Movement Image Team Chair Adam Fogelson stated in a information let fall Wednesday. “They are exceptional producers who choose their projects with great thought and care and join Monopoly with a clear point of view.”
LuckyChap, which Robbie leads at the side of her husband, Tom Ackerley, and Josey McNamara, was once instrumental within the luck of “Barbie.” Then the corporate joined the manufacturing crew, Robbie satisfied Mattel and Warner Bros. of the film’s large possible and the will for Greta Gerwig to be its director.
The movie grossed greater than $1 billion on the field workplace extreme summer season and changed into a popular culture strike. Lovers flocked to film theaters wearing purple costumes and glitter to proclaim the movie. “Barbie” snagged one Oscar award in March when Billie Eilish’s “What Was I Made For?” received perfect untouched music.
“Monopoly is a top property — pun fully intended,” stated LuckyChap in a information let fall. “Like all of the best IP, this game has resonated worldwide for generations, and we are so excited to bring this game to life alongside the wonderful teams involved at Lionsgate and Hasbro.”
Robbie and LuckyChap are on a roll with toy- and game-themed tasks. Extreme generation, Robbie’s manufacturing arm introduced a film in accordance with The Sims, a prevalent online game the place avid gamers govern simulated crowd via simulated lives. The sport had a large following within the early 2000s and continues to be round nowadays with numerous unused renditions.
Regardless of some hypothesis on-line that Robbie could be carving out a distinct segment as an auteur of competition and toy movies, her corporate has labored on many productions unrelated to video games since “Barbie,” together with “Saltburn” and “My Old Ass.”
A movie concerning the capitalistic board competition Monopoly will likely be any other effort by means of Hasbro to show its highbrow quality right into a field workplace luck. Thus far, it has perceptible blended effects. Although Transformers films secure coming in droves and snag millions, only one (a by-product, thoughts you) has had vital proclaim. In a similar way, the toy corporate’s films “Battleship” (2012) and “Power Rangers” (2017), in addition to films in accordance with the Ouija board competition and G.I. Joe, had been seriously panned with middling field workplace returns.
Hollywood has shifted its gaze towards toy-based films following the luck of “Barbie” and the animated “Lego Movie” ahead of it. There’s already an “emotional and grounded and gritty” tale about Sizzling Wheels vehicles by means of J.J. Abrams (cue the lens flare) in construction, in addition to a “Polly Pocket” film by Lena Dunham. And Vin Diesel has already punched his price ticket to assemble a Rock ’Em Sock ’Em Robots film. Mattel has also teased movies about — deep breath — American Lady dolls, Barney, the Witchery 8 Ball, motion determine Primary Matt Mason, the Masters of the Universe, Thomas the Tank Engine, the cardboard competition Uno and the perceptible toy View-Grasp.
It’s concealed what a Monopoly film will seem like. The more-than-a-century-old board game is a in large part luck-based festival to procure actual property, whose best recognizable personality is the top-hat-wearing Monopoly guy (or Affluent prosperous Uncle Milburn Pennybags). Hasbro Leisure’s head of movie, Zev Foreman, stated the sport “provides an incredible platform for storytelling opportunities.”
Director Ridley Scott instructed Vulture again in 2010 that he had an concept for a Monopoly film “with the large houses and funny top hats and that sort of thing.” Hasbro nixed the speculation, so he reimagined it as one thing a few Donald Trump-like personality having to paintings with actual property tycoons. “It’s about greed,” he instructed Vulture. “… Greed becomes, hopefully, hysterically funny.”
Some crowd have already theorized that the film will mimic the sport itself: “It’s going to go on way too long and the ending will be really obvious an hour out,” wrote Robert Colvile on X.
