Posts Tagged ‘Monopoly’
No One Knows What To Do With These Board Game Movies
With a deluge of board game movies in pre-production, and more announced damn near every day, you’d think Hasbro (who seems to be behind all of these things) would have some plan, some formula to get these things on the big screen. It seems like they’re just randomly selecting a property and throwing it out there with a pile of money, giving the project to whomever trips over it. But really, they’ve got to have some plan, right?
MTV was able to get the scoop on a couple of these movies and it seems, just like we may ponder about how the hell it could translate into a movie, the filmmakers haven’t a clue either.
Monopoly executive producer and Hasbro CEO Brian Goldner says Ridley Scott has “built these great big worlds of imagination” and the script is about
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Tags: board game, Monopoly, premise, property, South Park
Great Caesar’s Ghost! Candy Land The Movie?!
I could swear I remember reading something about board game movies being one of the signs of the Apocalypse. Well, maybe not, but they certainly sound like something that could only happen before our world comes to an end.
Movies based on board games have thankfully been few and far between, but they’ve suddenly turned into one of the preeminent genres in movies. First comes the head-scratcher that Ridley Scott is going to direct a movie based on Monopoly. Somehow that announcement legitimized board games as an honest place to go dumpster diving for ideas.
Now we can also prepare ourselves to receive the cinematic wonders of a movie based on Candy Land, the basically premise-less game- you draw cards to move along colored spaces until you reach the end, at which point it is rumored that you have found the lost king of Candy Land. This is the
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Tags: bad idea, board game, Monopoly, nostalgia, premise
4 Totally Awesome Movies Based On Board Games, And 1 Crappy One
In honor of the announcement that Ridley Scott is going to direct a movie based on Monopoly, I’ve compiled a list of the greatest movies based on board games.
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Tags: award, death, disgust, Dragon, game, Horror, Monopoly, monster, parody, prodigy, War
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