A Monopoly movie is coming courtesy of Margot Robbie and Lionsgate

Art from the Monopoly mobile crippled produced by Marmalade Game Studio. | Image: Marmalade Game Studio / Hasbro

Monopoly — a committee crippled astir forcing radical into bankruptcy by buying up arsenic overmuch existent property arsenic imaginable — does not look similar thing that would marque for an entertaining cinematic flight from reality, but Lionsgate plans to trial that theory.

Variety reports that a Monopoly movie is successful the works astatine Lionsgate that volition beryllium produced by Margot Robbie’s LuckyChap — the aforesaid outfit that backed Birds of Prey, Barbie, and Saltburn. In a connection astir the caller film, Lionsgate movie caput Adam Fogelson expressed his assurance successful LuckyChap’s “clear constituent of view” connected the Monopoly IP and excitement astir the anticipation of the crippled becoming different blockbuster for the accumulation outfit.

Hasbro, which besides owns the rights to the Transformers IP, has been informing america for years astir its aspirations to footwear disconnected an full cinematic beingness of films based connected the toys and games it produces. And aft the box-office occurrence of Greta Gerwig’s Barbie, it’s not hard to spot wherefore Lionsgate wants to enactment Uncle Pennybags connected the large screen. But we each retrieve however Battleship worked out, and Lionsgate is going to request a precise bully program to marque definite that the Monopoly movie doesn’t extremity up gathering a akin fate.