Ridley Scott Goes to Movie Jail
This is one of those news items that makes me check the calendar to see if it’s April Fool’s Day.
Apparently plans for a movie version of Monopoly, everyone’s favorite real estate game, have been kicking around Hollywood for awhile and Ridley Scott’s name was even attached as a producer. This morning I awake to find Steven Zeitchik writing in The Hollywood Reporter that Scott is officially going to direct it.
According to Zeitchik, Scott has “an eye toward giving it a futuristic sheen along the lines of his iconic Blade Runner.”
Hmmm…maybe Rich Uncle Pennybags will be a replicant.
Filed under: Development, News
Tags: Monopoly, Ridley Scott
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Old Boy remake with Speilberg helming, Will Smith starring. Karate Kid remake with Smith’s kid starring. Now this.
HAS EVERYONE IN HOLLYWOOD LOST THEIR F&?$ING MINDS?
The casting on this should kick ass though. I suggest Russel Crowe to play the Boot.
This is a futuristic version so Russell Crowe will be the Cell Phone/Projectile.
This is the dumbest idea ever.
Coming Summer 2011: Michael Bay’s Hungry Hungry Hippos. (he already kind of did Rock ‘em Sock ‘em Robots with Transformers)
hey now…don’t fight there’s plenty of old board games to choice from. maybe they’ll all have kick a** casting to….
ridley scott/ for you consideration for best director for… ;)
You laugh now Glimmer, but don’t come crying to me when they make a Candy Land movie.
Are you kidding me?
haha, Craig, a Candyland movie would not surprise me at all.
Actually, wouldn’t Bay follow up Rock Em Sock Em robots with Battleship? Oh wait, he already made Pearl Harbor.
If you read that THR article, they’re actually eyeing a Battleship movie.
It’s the end people. I’m telling you.
Just because Clue achieved cult status doesn’t mean ANY of this is a good idea.
lol, great comments. Well video game movies to board game movies, what can we expect? If he’s going to make a futuristic movie about a board game, why Monopoly? Why not something like Risk? Because he would make it 8 hours long.
It’s tough to be a screenwriter here when faced with projects of such mind-numbing banality. A Monopoly movie? Do I get to be the car?
Oh, man, I cannot wait for the Hans Zimmer score for this.
They are crazy. Literally, crazy.
Maybe a project this visionary just forces me up against the boundaries of my imagination, but I just cannot imagine this possibly being good–either good cinema or good box office. It’s like the Geico cavemen thing, just an inexplicably bad idea that gets backed despite itself. What is Scott thinking?
Egads. I’m dumbstruck.
At one time Ridley Scott wanted to make TRISTAN AND ISOLDE…
I think you guys are being a bit too harsh here. I’m personally looking forward to the new NBC game show “Rock-Paper-Scissors” and Trivial Pursuit: The Mini-series Event on HBO. I’m already predicting a 2009 Emmy win for Phillip Seymour Hoffman as the Pink triangle. Should be huge.
Alexander, I agree about the Zimmer score, but I think the Danny Elfman score for Tim Burton’s Chutes and Ladders will be the one to really watch for.
Yeah, I don’t understand this one either. I mean, doesn’t Ridley Scott have enough money? I thought he was hungering for an Oscar after not getting one for Gladiator, Black Hawk Down, or American Gangster - is he giving up on that?
Or is he just figuring that, since Monopoly was a success in the days of the Great Depression, that its’ second heyday is right around the corner?
Hahaha, Joel, great post.
Maybe after he finishes up Nine Daniel Day-Lewis can take on that most enviable actor’s showcase role, Mr. Monopoly himself.
Anne Hathaway is probably trying to secure the role of Free Parking.
lol, DDL as Mr. Monopoly - he would OWN that role!
All of your comments have made the stupidity worthwhile.
You know Daniel, as much as I dislike video game adaptations, at least those sort of have built in plots and a certain tone…but a board game…? Come on!!!
Daniel Day Lewis in: There Will Be Water Works
“I BUY YOUR PROPERTIES! I BUY THEM UP!!!”
The tagline:
“You thought the mortgaging crisis was bad before…
This Christmas, the real mortgaging crisis begins.”
But it’s true, I’ve always wondered what Park Place would like in the hands of a cinematic master. The “Get Out Of Jail Free” part of the game will be a dynamic third-act explosion.
In case you don’t get how I feel about this:
Stupidest. Idea. In. The. History. Of. Hollywood.
hahahahhaha.
I think Bruckheimer opened the floodgates by making a movie out of a low rent Disney ride. Now anything from your childhood is fair game.
Monopoly could be done like Paris Je Taime. A series of directors interpret each property as five minute mini-films.
Sydney Lumet does Pennsylvania Ave, Tarantino does Go To Jail, Scorsese can do New York Ave, Nora Ephron gets Water Works, The Coen Brothers can do Chance, and Bob Rafelson can have a career comeback with Return to King of Marvin Gardens.
These things write themselves.
Wait–Monopoly is a board game? I thought it was just a McDonald’s sweepstakes!
hahaha….”Return to the King of Marvin Gardens”
JB, I’ve got like 5 Park Place, you wouldn’t happen to have a Boardwalk, would ya???
Brilliant idea, joel. Love it.
Sorry, Craig, can’t help ya there. But I’m up to my ears in free small fries.
Hmmm…fries.