Are You Ready for the Monopoly Movie plot ?

NO.

This has been really under the radar but Hollywood is making a Monopoly movie. The story broke a few months ago but no one producing has talked about it much because they know it sounds like a horrible idea...and no news is good news but now there's news. Crap.

One of the people involved with the concept of the movie recently said WAY too much.

From The LA Times:

"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.’"

Doesn't sound that bad right ? Keep reading:

"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 Monolopy. 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."

The evil Parker Brothers ? ....Did I really just read that? Great idea make your family game board company figure heads into the overlords of Monopoly land hell. And he has to beat them to win...what ? What is this ...Yu-Gi-Oh !?! Do they realize how long games of Monopoly last? I never had any faith in this movie being a good idea but now I just don't know what to think. It's got Ridley Scott directing, I'll just say that and call it a day.

Go read the whole article...maybe you'll get transported to an alternate universe where you can battle the evil, who ever owns the LA Times monster. *ROAR*