What's your take on Monopoly?
Goldner: Monopoly has this wonderful history. If you'll remember, Monopoly was literally invented at The [Great] Depression, so that idea, this fiction that's really there, this non-fiction fiction that's really there in the game and in the fact that there's such great roots to this brand and the history of the brand, we bring this to life with a story about families.
With Monopoly, did Ridley Scott come to you with an idea or did you come to him?
Goldner: Well Ridley did have an idea. He grew up on Monopoly over in the UK and Monopoly is a brand that's all over the world. But for Ridley, he's always been a guy that's created these great big worlds and so for us, Monopoly is this great big world that will look like our world but of course there are certain things about it that make it uniquely a Monopoly kind-of-world.
Goldner: Monopoly has this wonderful history. If you'll remember, Monopoly was literally invented at The [Great] Depression, so that idea, this fiction that's really there, this non-fiction fiction that's really there in the game and in the fact that there's such great roots to this brand and the history of the brand, we bring this to life with a story about families.
With Monopoly, did Ridley Scott come to you with an idea or did you come to him?
Goldner: Well Ridley did have an idea. He grew up on Monopoly over in the UK and Monopoly is a brand that's all over the world. But for Ridley, he's always been a guy that's created these great big worlds and so for us, Monopoly is this great big world that will look like our world but of course there are certain things about it that make it uniquely a Monopoly kind-of-world.
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gandoff2169
I agree, so far Clue has been the best board game movie. But Hasbro had a board game call Heros Quest. A dungouns and dragons type game with 4 characters, A elf, A dwarf, a wizard, and a barbarian. Now that could work. Plus Risk, plus a frech card game called Mills Borne, about racing by cars to a certian distance.
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Newkill3000
i agree jskillet, Clue is the best movie from a board game.
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T.Clark
Tim Burton for Candyland...or maybe it would look too much like Alice in Wonderland...hmmm...
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jskillet
honestly, CLUE will always be the best movie based off an old board game. with great actors like tim curry, martin mull, christopher lloyd, and madeline kahn.
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Diaigma
The only board game that might make a decent adaption here is Candyland, and that's still a piece of sugary goodness that's hard to swallow, for me :P
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