{"id":491461,"date":"2026-06-13T22:21:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T22:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/491461\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T22:21:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T22:21:13","slug":"multiple-teams-to-write-monopoly-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/491461\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiple Teams To Write &#8220;Monopoly&#8221; Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/traitors-team-doing-monopoly-gameshow.jpg\" data-caption=\"Game Board Design by Hasbro\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/traitors-team-doing-monopoly-gameshow.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"traitors-team-doing-monopoly-gameshow\"\/><\/a>Game Board Design by Hasbro<\/p>\n<p>Two pairs of writers have boarded the film adaptation of the board game \u201cMonopoly\u201d at Lionsgate, LuckyChap and Hasbro Entertainment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/06\/monopoly-movie-lionsgate-developing-two-new-takes-1236954940\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Deadline<\/a> reports that two different scripts are currently in development \u2013 one by \u201cA Minecraft Movie\u201d scribes Neil Widener &amp; Gavin James, and the other by \u201cDumb Money\u201d writers Rebecca Angelo &amp; Lauren Schuker Blum.<\/p>\n<p>The studios will reportedly have two different outlines and will likely commission a single script from those.<\/p>\n<p>The four writers replace acclaimed \u201cSpider-Man: Homecoming\u201d scribes and \u201cGame Night\u201d directors John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, who closed a deal to pen the movie a year ago \u2013 that version being scrapped.<\/p>\n<p>The Monopoly game itself began in 1935, with players setting out to acquire properties and build houses and hotels, all while avoiding bankruptcy and the \u2018go directly to jail\u2019 card. Nearly 1 billion copies of the game have been sold.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple attempts to adapt the game into a film have taken place across nearly two decades, with no one able to crack it. Filmmakers Ridley Scott and Tim Story were both linked at one point.<\/p>\n<p>Lionsgate completed its purchase of Hasbro\u2019s film and TV arm eOne in December 2024, which included the rights to \u201cMonopoly\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Game Board Design by Hasbro Two pairs of writers have boarded the film adaptation of the board game&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[63746,146,85,46,397],"class_list":["post-491461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-bigslider","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491461","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=491461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}