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		<title>MONOPOLY in Wonderland!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:39:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[All that talk of a Wall Street-esque tale of greed and real estate, all that talk from Sir. Ridley Scott that he was aiming to make a movie which carried the "futuristic sheen" of Blade Runner, well it just looks dumb now, doesn't it?

Universal had to tell us eventually just how in God's name they planned to make the popular but tiresome Monopoly board game into a movie and now the pieces are out of the box, well... it's the dumbest fucking movie idea I think I've ever heard, quite frankly.

Basically, the "metaphor for life" idea boils down to ripping-off Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, where our lead wakes up after taking a chance card playing Monopoly and finds himself in another reality not unlike the board game, spending Monopoly movie and buying properties, fighting off "The Parker Brothers" and sharing some chuckles with Uncle Pennybags, who is a maître d' at a restaurant.

I promise you, I'm not making this up. If you read the following quotes under this image and find yourself gasping and shaking your head in disbelief at the absurdity that a major Hollywood studio at Universal would pay millions of dollars for this, then don't worry. ...]]></description>
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		<title>Hasbro chief on STRETCH ARMSTRONG, BATTLESHIPS, CANDY LAND &amp; MONOPOLY!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:54:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[

You know the stereotype used car salesman who bring the act of "Indian rubbing stretching the truth" as Rod Serling once called it to every customer interaction - that's kind of the feeling I get from Hasbro CEO Brian Goldner when talking about his toy properties that are to be made into movies by Universal. 

It's not particularly that I think he is a liar but he just has one of those faces who when he is trying to sell me an idea of things, I always think he is plotting to sell me an unreliable car. 

And with Stretch Armstrong, Battleships, Candy Land and most of all Monopoly, he's surely gotta a lot of selling to do. 



I don't in the slightest need these movies, and doesn't he realise that Ridley Scott attaches himself to a dozen projects a year and it's logistically impossible for him to actually make all of them? Out of Alien 0.5, Brave New World and countless others, something has gotta give. 

This quote about Monopoly just sums it up all. Does he actually say ANYTHING here; can someone please decipher this quote into something that does not resemble salesman speak...
Well Ridley did have an idea.  He grew up on “Monopoly” ...]]></description>
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		<title>Ridley Scott wants to make MONOPOLY as iconic as BLADE RUNNER</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:23:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Hollywood Reporter say that Ridley Scott is now firmly attached to direct an adaptation of the Hasbro's popular worldwide board game, MONOPOLY, "with an eye toward giving it a futuristic sheen along the lines of his iconic BLADE RUNNER".

Hmmm...



Pamela Pettler, the writer of the animated movies MONSTER HOUSE and CORPSE BRIDE, and also the former co-executive producer of the mid 90's show Clueless will scribe. She has the ardous task of coming up with a script for the formulaic real estate board game whose biggest tension usually derives from trying to avoid staying the night on Mayfair (that's the U.K. game anyway) and being charged the rent of an expensive Hotel.

Last year Scott told the L.A. Times about the film...

So it’s really finding the universe for that game. Because clearly it ought to be humorous and for the family — the funny way it brings out, particularly when your uncle suddenly gets Park Lane and — in England, we have Park Lane, Mayfair and Barclay Square, what’s it in America? Park and Madison? So you watch people change. You’re witness to Jekyll and Hyde. Somewhere in that is a hysterically amusing and I think rather exciting film.
You know, when ...]]></description>
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		<title>Universal agree multi-film deal with toy makers Hasbro!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 11:49:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jesus, they really will make anything a movie these days. And how pissed must Paramount be right now? In the future the only Hasbro properties they will be able to make movies from are G.I. JOE and TRANSFORMERS.

Which granted, are the two biggies. The following comes from Variety...
Universal Pictures has announced a six-year partnership with Hasbro to produce at least four feature films based on branded properties.

The properties include “Monopoly,” “Candy Land,” “Clue,” “Ouija,” “Battleship,” “Magic, The Gathering” and “Stretch Armstrong.”
In terms of MONOPOLY, we already know that Ridley Scott has attached himself to the property and is looking to direct a feature film out of it. Don't even ask me to explain that one, it's one of those "so strange it has to be true" situations.

CLUE is the American name for what we Brits know as CLUEDO and would seem to be the most easy adaptable for film. Any Sherlock Holmes style mystery with outlandish names such as Miss. Scarlett could easily work, and indeed already has with the Tim Curry movie in 1985 - which is actually pretty damn fun.

The other properties I'm not so sure would work. BATTLESHIP I guess could be turned into any kind of ...]]></description>
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