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EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate, LuckyChap, and Hasbro Entertainment are partnering pinch 2 prima penning teams — Neil Widener & Gavin James (A Minecraft Movie) and Rebecca Angelo & Lauren Schuker Blum (Dumb Money) — to soma retired ideas for a Monopoly movie based connected nan iconic committee game, sources show Deadline.
Studio insiders stressed that it’s still very early days present and there’s nary telling which measurement things spell pinch this project. But we’re told they’ve been presented pinch 2 outlines and will committee 1 book from there. Stay tuned to spot wherever this 1 hands.
Attempts astatine improvement connected a Monopoly movie agelong backmost decades — complete a decade, alone, successful Lionsgate’s case. The studio’s astir caller activity connected 1 comes pursuing its 2023 acquisition of eOne from Hasbro, which gave it entree to a room of 6,500 movie and tv titles. While Hasbro retained authorities to galore of its biggest pieces of IP — like Transformers and Dungeons & Dragons — they sweetened nan woody by affording Lionsgate nan correct to develop Monopoly for nan large screen.
Lionsgate announced LuckyChap’s engagement astatine CinemaCon successful 2024, connected nan heels of their blockbuster occurrence with Barbie. The task gained further important momentum erstwhile they attached John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein to pen a book successful March 2025, which did not spell forward.
Lionsgate first took a stab astatine adapting Monopoly in 2015, enlisting Golden Globe nominee Andrew Niccol to pen a script. Later, they developed different return pinch Kevin Hart, which would person had him reunite pinch his Ride Along and Night School collaborator Tim Story.
The push to bring Monopoly to nan large surface began successful 2008, erstwhile Universal group a six-year strategical business pinch Hasbro to nutrient films based connected its iconic crippled and artifact brands. Ridley Scott was adapted to nonstop astatine 1 point, though nan container agency nonaccomplishment of 2012’s Battleship took nan upwind retired of Universal’s sails, erstwhile it came to its game-to-film inaugural pinch Hasbro. The institution reclaimed authorities to Monopoly after that woody expired, pinch shaper Randall Emmett concisely attempting to get a Monopoly movie disconnected nan crushed thereafter.
The world’s astir celebrated committee crippled brand, pinch 99% world awareness, Monopoly has sold astir half a cardinal copies going backmost to 1935 and is disposable successful much than 100 countries crossed nan globe. This is, of course, nan real-estate committee crippled wherever players effort to bankrupt opponents done nan buying, renting, and trading of properties.
In tandem pinch improvement connected nan feature, Hasbro Entertainment has precocious progressed improvement connected an unscripted Monopoly series for Netflix, pinch Studio Lambert — nan accumulation institution down Peacock’s deed crippled show The Traitors — winning a bake-off to nutrient arsenic of February, arsenic we first reported.
Neil Widener & Gavin James are known for penning Warner Bros.’ phenomenon A Minecraft Movie, nan biggest video-game adjustment of each time, which opened to a record-breaking $163M and yet grossed complete $960M. They besides constitute nan upcoming A Minecraft Sequel and person besides worked connected a movie based connected nan Beyblade artifact franchise for shaper Jerry Bruckheimer. Last year, nan duo sold their original characteristic pitch, Fortune, to Skydance successful a competitory business pinch Jerry Bruckheimer attached to nutrient and Alan Ritchson attached to star. They’re besides presently adapting nan Neal Shusterman short communicative “Dawn” for Netflix pinch Dylan Clark producing, arsenic good arsenic nan video crippled franchise Jak & Daxter for Sony/PlayStation pinch Ruben Fleischer attached to direct. They are represented by CAA, Untitled Entertainment, and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole.
Rebecca Angelo & Lauren Schuker Blum are nan writers of nan Craig Gillespie-helmed Dumb Money, connected nan GameStop short compression of January 2021, and Universal’s upcoming Murder She Wrote starring Jamie Lee Curtis. Writing movie & TV together since 2012, they first met arsenic reporters at The Wall Street Journal. Other upcoming projects include Rise, astir nan historical women’s nationalist hoops squad that paved nan measurement for nan creation of nan WNBA, and nan characteristic biopic of talent supplier Sue Mengers that’s group up astatine Apple TV+ pinch Jennifer Lawrence starring. They’re exec producers location and are besides presently processing a bid pinch Aggregate for Netflix. They are repped by CAA, LBI Entertainment, and Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern.
