Ridley Scott’s Monopoly Movie Premise Revealed
By Brendon Connelly/Nov. 11, 2009 3:00 pm EST
Er… okay. So it’s like Zathura or Jumanji then? Not what I had in mind. After the break, who this “he” is, and how he will get himself into this surrealist scrape in the first place.
[H]e’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.
All of the details are at Hero Complex, where Beddor gives a good heap of set-up for the picture’s plot and characters. His hero is apparently a “comedic, lovable loser” who’s not so hot at his job in Real Estate but rather nifty at Monopoly. His ambition is to beat the world record for marathon playing of the game, which is apparently 70 straight days, and as a result of this he somehow ends up slipping into the parallel universe.
