{"id":489777,"date":"2026-06-12T19:33:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T19:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/489777\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T19:33:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T19:33:12","slug":"monopoly-movie-lionsgate-developing-two-new-takes-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/489777\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Monopoly’ Movie: Lionsgate Developing Two New Takes (EXCLUSIVE)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE:\u00a0Lionsgate<\/a>, LuckyChap<\/a>, and Hasbro Entertainment<\/a> are partnering with two star writing teams \u2014 Neil Widener<\/a> & Gavin James<\/a> (A Minecraft Movie) and Rebecca Angelo<\/a> & Lauren Schuker Blum<\/a> (Dumb Money) \u2014 to flesh out ideas for a\u00a0Monopoly<\/a>\u00a0movie based on the iconic board game, sources tell Deadline.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Rebecca<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tRebecca Angelo and Lauren Schuker Blum <\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tEmilio Madrid<\/p>\n

\n\tStudio insiders stressed that it\u2019s still very early days here and there\u2019s no telling which way things go with this project. But we\u2019re told they\u2019ve been presented with two outlines and will commission one script from there. Stay tuned to see where this one lands.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Neil<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tNeil Widener and Gavin James<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGetty\/Courtesy<\/p>\n

\n\tAttempts at development on a\u00a0Monopoly\u00a0movie stretch back decades \u2014 over a decade, alone, in Lionsgate\u2019s case. The studio\u2019s most recent work on Monopoly comes following its 2023 acquisition of eOne from Hasbro, which gave it access to a library of 6,500 film and television titles. While Hasbro retained rights to many of its biggest pieces of IP \u2014 like\u00a0Transformers\u00a0and\u00a0Dungeons & Dragons\u00a0\u2014 they sweetened the deal by affording Lionsgate the right to develop\u00a0Monopoly\u00a0for the big screen.<\/p>\n

\n\tLionsgate announced LuckyChap\u2019s involvement at CinemaCon in 2024, on the heels of their blockbuster success with\u00a0Barbie. The project gained further momentum when they attached John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein to pen a script in March 2025, which did not go forward.<\/p>\n

\n\tLionsgate first took a stab at adapting\u00a0Monopoly\u00a0in 2015, enlisting Golden Globe nominee Andrew Niccol to pen a script. Later, they developed another take with Kevin Hart, which would have had him reunite with his\u00a0Ride Along\u00a0collaborator Tim Story.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe push to bring\u00a0Monopoly\u00a0to the big screen began in 2008, when Universal set a six-year strategic partnership with Hasbro to produce films based on its iconic game and toy brands. Ridley Scott was adapted to direct at one point, though the box office failure of 2012\u2019s\u00a0Battleship\u00a0took the wind out of Universal\u2019s sails, when it came to its game-to-film initiative with Hasbro. The company reclaimed rights to\u00a0Monopoly\u00a0after its Universal deal expired, with producer Randall Emmett briefly attempting to get a\u00a0Monopoly\u00a0movie off the ground thereafter.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe world\u2019s most popular board game brand, with 99% global awareness,\u00a0Monopoly\u00a0has sold nearly half a billion copies going back to 1935 and is available in more than 100 countries across the globe. This is, of course, the real-estate game where players attempt to bankrupt opponents through the buying, renting, and trading of properties.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn tandem with development on the feature, Hasbro Entertainment has recently progressed development on an unscripted\u00a0Monopoly\u00a0series<\/a> for Netflix, with Studio Lambert \u2014 the production company behind Peacock\u2019s hit game show\u00a0The Traitors\u00a0\u2014 winning a bake-off to produce as of February, as we first reported.<\/p>\n

\n\tNeil Widener & Gavin James are known for writing Warner Bros.\u2019 phenomenon\u00a0A Minecraft Movie, one of the biggest video-game adaptations of all time, which opened to a record-breaking $163M and eventually grossed over $960M. They also write the upcoming\u00a0A Minecraft Sequel\u00a0and have worked on a film based on the Beyblade toy franchise for producer Jerry Bruckheimer. Last year, the duo sold their original feature pitch,\u00a0Fortune, to Skydance in a competitive situation with Jerry Bruckheimer attached to produce and Alan Ritchson attached to star. They\u2019re also currently adapting the Neal Shusterman short story \u201cDawn\u201d for Netflix with Dylan Clark producing, as well as the video game\u00a0Jak & Daxter\u00a0for Sony\/PlayStation with Ruben Fleischer attached to direct. They are represented by CAA, Untitled Entertainment, and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole.<\/p>\n

\n\tRebecca Angelo & Lauren Schuker Blum are the writers of the Craig Gillespie-helmed\u00a0Dumb Money, the Sony film on the GameStop short squeeze of January 2021, and Universal\u2019s upcoming\u00a0Murder She Wrote\u00a0starring Jamie Lee Curtis. Writing film & TV together since 2012, they first met as reporters at\u00a0The Wall Street Journal. Other upcoming projects include\u00a0Rise, about the historic women\u2019s national basketball team that paved the way for the creation of the WNBA, and the feature biopic of talent agent Sue Mengers that\u2019s set up at Apple TV with Jennifer Lawrence starring. They\u2019re exec producers there and are also currently developing a series with Aggregate for Netflix. They are repped by CAA, LBI Entertainment, and Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE:\u00a0Lionsgate, LuckyChap, and Hasbro Entertainment are partnering with two star writing teams \u2014 Neil Widener & Gavin James…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,226115,226116,85,46,226117,19369,174187,8785,226118,226119],"class_list":["post-489777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gavin-james","tag-hasbro-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-lauren-schuker-blum","tag-lionsgate","tag-luckychap","tag-monopoly","tag-neil-widener","tag-rebecca-angelo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}