The Uninteresting Plot for Ridley Scott's 'Monopoly'

So how exactly will Ridley Scott turn Monopoly into a board game? It's the world's most popular and frustrating form of communal entertainment (well, using fake money, anyway), but going around a square board and losing all your money doesn't sound like a natural movie idea. Fortunately, we don't have to work that our on own because writer-producer Frank Beddor tells The Los Angeles Times how it's going to work. "I created a comedic, lovable loser who lives in Manhattan and works at a real estate company and he's not very good at his job but he's great at playing Monopoly." But wait...there's a whole lot more, and it's hardly A-list stuff:

"And the world record for playing is 70 straight days – over 1,600 hours – and he wanted to try to convince his friends to help him break that world record. They think he is crazy. They kid him about this girl and they're playing the game and there's this big fight. And he's holding a Chance card and after they've left he says, 'Damn, I wanted to use that Chance card,' and he throws it down. He falls asleep and then he wakes up in the morning and he's holding the Chance card, and he thinks, 'That's odd.' "He's all groggy and he goes down to buy some coffee and he reaches into his pocket and all he has is Monopoly money. All this Monopoly money pours out. He's confused and embarrassed and the girl reaches across the counter and says, 'That's OK.' And she gives him change in Monopoly money. He walks outside and he's in this very vibrant place, Monopoly City, and he's just come out of a Chance Shop." "As it goes on, he takes on the evil Parker Brothers in the game of Monopoly. He has to defeat them. 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 maitre d' at the restaurant and he's the buggy driver and the local eccentric and the doorman at the opera. There's all these sight gags."

No sir, I don't think I like that idea very much. And I'm surprised Ridley Scott wants to direct it.

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[Tjei]

It's a good solid studio idea.