Proof positive that Hollywood is scraping the barrel for ideas, a mooted big-screen adap of Monopoly seemed like a bad joke when rumours surfaced a couple of months ago, but it seems that former loaf flogger turned auteur Ridley Scott has decided to have a poke at the four square property game, with predictably odd results.
Speaking to the L.A.Times, writer Frank Beddor outlined his stupendous plan to convert the story-free game into prime entertainment, and you guessed it –he’s going down the Jumanji route. An ‘ordinary Joe’ falling asleep and waking up in the game…sigh…
Beddor, who’s currently touting some drivel he’s spouted about Lewis Carrol characters invading the real world had this to say:
“It tries to incorporate all the iconic imageries – a sports car pulls up, there’s someone on a horse, someone pushing a wheelbarrow – and rich Uncle Pennybags, you’re going to see him as the maître d’ at the restaurant and he’s the buggy driver and the local eccentric and the doorman at the opera, says Beddor. “There’s all these sight gags.”
Nice of you to point that out for us Frank, as they sound like real rib-ticklers.
Sir Scott is dragging this dead horse through his production mangler with a view to a 2011 release. STS once thought it had played Monopoly for an entire year…turns out we were just really bored.
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*groan*
This looks really shit. Can’t imagine how the pitch went.