Monopoly Movie Plot Details Revealed

Gotta hand it to Universal. I really wanna see Ridley Scott’s Monopoly movie now. Its producer Frank Beddor reveals to the Los Angeles Times his story pitch to the studio that got their approval and the interest of one Mr. Scott:

"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.’

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.”

If all works out, Monopoly could be the biggest cinematic acid-trip since Speed Racer. Tell me you don’t want to see how the Hell Scott and his production team are going to visualize this world. That’s not to say this sounds like a good idea. No, actually this sounds like one horrible mess of a movie.

Now comes the biggest question of them all – who will play Uncle Moneybags? Russell Crowe? Jim Broadbent? Wilford Brimley?