Producer and author Frank Beddor recently spoke to
The Los Angeles Times and he revealed that he wrote the story that got director Ridley Scott interested in
Monopoly. Here's his description of the plot below.
"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. 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.'"
Yes, this is all going where you think it is. Beddor continued:
"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 maître 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."
to read more of the site's piece on
Monopoly.
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instead we get a faux world, faux money, and a very cheesy premise. oh well.