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EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is officially passing spell connected its reality title bid based connected iconic committee crippled Monopoly.
The streamer has greenlit nan series, which comes from Studio Lambert, and has group a $2M expansive prize.
This comes aft Deadline revealed that The Traitors shaper had won nan bake-off to nutrient nan show, which saw astir 50 accumulation companies vie for nan order. It is making nan show pinch Hasbro Entertainment.
Netflix has kicked disconnected casting connected nan series, which is group to premiere adjacent year.
Some 12 contestants will compete connected a life-sized, “fully realized” Monopoly Town Square. Per nan logline, nan players will participate connected adjacent footing. But equality won’t past long. To survive, contestants must accumulate everything, aliases suffer it all. Every negotiation, each decision, and each rotation could mean nan quality betwixt building an empire and going straight to jail. One by one, bankrupt players are eliminated — until a azygous victor is near opinionated to return it all.
Nia Yemoh, Tim Harcourt, Jack Burgess, Stephen Lambert and Kim Murphy will exec nutrient for Studio Lambert, while Gabriel Marano and Zachary Edwinwill exec nutrient for Hasbro Entertainment.
Last year, Netflix struck a pact pinch Hasbro for nan authorities to Monopoly. It was a privilege task for precocious departed unscripted caput Jeff Gaspin.
Gaspin told Deadline that he was convinced to bargain nan task without a transportation successful portion owed to nan occurrence of mobile committee crippled Monopoly Go!.
It is nan latest greenlight for Studio Lambert, which is portion of All3Media, nan accumulation group that was conscionable taken complete by Banijay. The company, which produces Squid Game: The Challenge for Netflix, is besides down The Circle, which antecedently aired connected Netflix and is now being remade for Hulu.
