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Does it even seem plausible to make a movie out of the board game Monopoly, let alone a comedy thriller? Ridley Scott, creator of 'Gladiator' is apparently going to attempt to do just that. Scarlett Johansson and Kirsten Dunst are being considered for roles. The games maker, Hasbro, wants the film to feature "sexy young people," which they believe will make the ... Who knew that toy companies had agents? This is what I wondered earlier this month when Variety reported that Hasbro had switched from CAA to ... ... on the classic Parker Brothers’ Monopoly board game. When I first heard rumblings that Ridley Scott was trying to adapt the ... guy who made Blade Runner ever be interested in a Monopoly movie? Here is what Scott told the LATimes: “Monopoly ... and I think rather exciting film.” An exciting film? About Monopoly? Am I missing something? But don’t worry, Scott has cleared up rumors, he won’t be making a ...

... the film. Per an interview over at LA Times, Scott confirmed his interest and that he is pursuing a ... had to say, with some rather interesting commentary. Monopoly is still the most popular board game — I ... back and enjoy. It will go down in movie history as not being anything exquisite, but something ... . That's what I'm expecting and nothing more. Find More: Movie News + Tags: Monopoly, Ridley Scott ... ... has recruited Alien director Ridley Scott and the William Morris agency to make a "comedy thriller" based on Monopoly, says The Sunday Times ... be the sexy young person with Dunst serving as contrast. Following Monopoly's game structure, I assume the story will begin pleasantly ... pretty dubious, but that skepticism has doubled after noticing its odd, vague title, "Director on board for movie." Source

... friends who can plaster. If you’re doing a movie and you need a dude who can play ... wedding, which is the tack I’d expect Scott to take. My gut-pandering choice for the ... s 25 Greatest Active Film Directors List George Clooney, Ridley Scott and the Marvel Studios Chairman Walk Into a ... 26: Quantum of Solace Worst Idea Ever: Ridley Scott is Directing Monopoly ... ... outline that it’s only loosely based. Either that, or Scott may have some really cool twists in store for us. ... joining Josh Lucas and the iconic Brian Cox. Scott, who will be producing, has tapped ‘Dexter’ director Michael Cuesta ... Is Wall-E This Year’s Inconvenient Truth?New Muppets Movie in the Works!300 and One? More Spartans on HorizonGet Ready For Ridley Scott’s MonopolyDVD Review ... Although it was once a bizarre rumor, director Ridley Scott has confirmed his plans to work on a movie based off the popular board game, ...

Director RIDLEY SCOTT will helm the bizarre big screen adaptation of popular boardgame MONOPOLY. The Gladiator moviemaker has been signed by studio giant Universal to bring the ...I’ve decided to make “Worst Idea Ever” a regular feature since it appears that the Hollywood movie studios are in a never-ending race to see who can greenlight the worst of ...The latest movie news, movie trailers, movie reviews, interviews, rumors, hype, and everything related to the theatrical experience straight from Hollywood and beyond.The latest movie news, movie trailers, movie reviews, interviews, rumors, hype, and everything related to the theatrical experience straight from Hollywood and beyond.

Details about Ridley Scott’s Monopoly Movie. By Rodney - August 7, 2009 - 15:16 America/Montreal . Looks like Hasbro is riding the money train with their properties ...Welcome to the MTV Movies Blog, updated throughout the day with exclusive movie news, trailers, interviews and more. Our team of film experts joins with celebrity contributors ...Genre darling Ridley Scott is going to bring to life the famous monocle man in a film adaptation of the famous Hasbro board game Monopoly. Yes, you heard me right — they are ... ... to get back into the regular swing of thing around here at The Movie Blog. It’s a little less craowded around the Round Table tonight as ... Weapon 5 3) Fantastic Four 3 with a BABY ?! 4) Ridley Scott to do a Monopoly movie? 5) Highlander: The Source to bypass theaters and DVD and go straight to TV 6) Blonde Ambition… yuck 7) Warcraft The Movie 8) The Bourne Ultimatum All this and a few things more.So, Ridley Scott is making a movie based on the board game Monopoly. Granted, I don't know ... properties all over the country, and, to get a monopoly, the characters have to follow a set of cryptic ... --National Treasure, The Da Vinci Code--so if this movie gets out quickly enough, there could still be an ... at least as much fun as a Wacky Races movie, I guess.UPDATE: Becca contributes this tag line: Do ...

Variety is reporting that Star Trek: Nemesis screenwriter John Logan has been brought on-board to write an adaptation of The Passage , a nearly 1200 page vampire novel written by Jordan Ainsley . Fox 2000 are developing the vampire film for Ridley Scott to possibly direct, which would see him and Logan work together for the first time since 2000’s Gladiator . Two years ago Fox 2000  paid an undisclosed seven figure sum for the rights to The Passage , theRidley Scott's adding yet another project to his list of things to do. Scott, whose most recent film - Body of Lies - underperformed at the box office will produce and direct a ...A new feature film adaptation of the peg-based board game is planned to hit the big screen by July 1, 2011. Universal has set the date for Peter Berg’s Battleship. Whiteout writers Erich and Jon Hoeber have written the script. So will the fleet comprise of a submarine, destroyer, battleship, aircraft carrier and patrol boat? No word has come out from the writers about who they will be up against, and will the loser shout out those famous words “you sunk my battleship.” Ridley Scott and U

Patients who are terminally ill gets bitten by a bat in South America only to discover they're magically cured. The government, never one to overlook a patent on a miracle cure, starts experimenting on human subjects with the bat virus. But things go wrong, as semi-supernatural human testing tends to do, and bloodthirsty death row inmates may not have made the best test subjects. Such is the plot of The Passage, a forthcoming novel by Jordan Ainsley, a pen name for PEN-Hemmingway award winner JThe man is going insane.  I still want to know what’s happening to the Monopoly movie, but now it looks like Ridley “ Alien ” Scott is set to direct a movie about the trendiest of trendy topics, vampires. Those of you hoping for a taught, old-school horror flick of the supernatural variety, though, should be prepared to be disappointed.  This is 2009, so that means Vampires need to be explained and scientific and super zombie-like bloodthirsty! The movie, which will be written by John Lo

Ridley Scott seems to be giving Guillermo Del Toro a run for his money lately in terms of the number of projects he is attaching himself to, although it remains to be seen just how many of these will actually end up getting made. He’s got the Alien prequel, Brave New World, Monopoly, and The Forever War all on his plate currently, just to name a few. Now it looks like he may be adding a vampire movie to the mix as well, and considering how popular bloodsuckers are as of late, it could end up goiNO, that title is not a misprint. It turns out that a film based on the popular naval strategy game is still moving forward. You know the Battleship game right? The one where two people sit on either side of a plastic toy calling out “ co-ordinates ” to sink each other’s “ battleships ”. Of course a film based on a toy isn’t a new thing. Transformers has done pretty well for itself and cluedo has been adapted in the past. Even Ridley Scott has been banging on about a film based on Mon

I can see it now. Kid plays Battleship board game. Kid grows up and becomes studio executive. Kid, now man, runs out of ideas. Man opts to make Battleship into a movie. Man sinks Hollywood. Just when you or I could not be surprised anymore by news of Hollywood reaching way down into the depths of the toy bin or comic box for material, news like this hits. Variety is reporting that Universal has opted director Peter Berg to direct a film based on Hasbro/Milton Bradley’s

So what is Ridley Scott’s follow-up to American Gangster? Monopoly. Yes, the board game. This is all a ... between the studio and Hasbro for rights to such properties as “Monopoly,” “Candy Land,” “Clue,” “Ouija,” “Battleship,” “Magic, The Gathering” and “ ... Mark Romanek Bails on ‘Wolfman’2008 Movie Preview: Universal StudiosAmerican GangsterWB 2008 Preview: Ridley Scott’s Body of LiesHot FuzzAmerican ... Back in May we reported that Hancock helmer, Peter Berg, was in talks to direct the live-action adaptation of the popular Hasbro board game, Battleship . Fast-forward four months and Berg has been confirmed to direct the movie, and a release date has been set - July 1st, 2011. Variety is reporting that Berg directing Battleship is part of a two-picture deal with UniversaIn an interview over on Collider , Frosty spoke with Hasbro CEO Brian Goldner at a G.I. Joe screening and he covered the movies that the company has in development. In many ways it mirrored what our own Jessica Barnes wrote about back in March . Hasbro clearly isn't content to sit back and dive into the coffers filled with money from the Transformers movies, which will likely swell even further when G.I. Joe is released this weekend. They aren't just licensing their toys for film devSo far, almost all my friends have reported back a somewhat positive review of the mindless fun that is G.I. JOE: THE RISE OF COBRA. I never thought I’d say this, but I’m actually looking forward to seeing it because this summer needs an awesome action movie . Lately, lots of movies based on toys have gone into development and Collider was able to get an update on a lot of those movies from Hasbro CEO, Brian Goldner. Here’s what he had to say about about some

... how much I continue to hear about the Monopoly movie, I still feel like it's all ... Ridley Scott, the man behind Alien and Blade Runner and Gladiator, would want to direct a movie ... some interesting thoughts on the direction of the movie and it's modern societal connection - the economy. ... as well as the "personal story" contained with the Monopoly experience? Does anyone know what Goldney is talking ...

Candyland……….The Movie????????No.  This is not a farce.  A trick to get you to come visit my website and discover all the other cool stuff I’ve got going on here.  It is in face very true.  There is a Candyland movie in the works to be made.  Supported through Universal Studios and set to be directed by Kevin Lima who is responsible for the cheesy yet sweet and clever Enchanted.  The script is being written by Etan Cohen who is better known for the screenplay of Tropic Thunder, Idiocracy, and woIt has been revealed that Stephen Dorff is working on a prequel to Blade. Yep, despite the fact that he looks way older than he did in the original movie, Dorff seems set to return as Deacon Frost, his character who was killed by Wesley Snipe’s Blade way back in 1998. Quite how they can make a prequel where the main protagonist looks older despite the story stating quite clearly that he never ages, is anyone’s guess. This sounds like another Twilight bandwagon hop-aboard. The Blade series

Right now, as I type this Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is nearing one kagillion dollars at the worldwide box office, a total so large it has gone into made up numbers.  At this point it’s fairly well documented that I wasn’t a fan of the sequel, so I won’t reiterate how there was no story and most of the critics got it right. But Transformers got me thinking about how I used to take Soundwave in the tub with me and, while surrounded by bubbles, dive bomb the rubber ducky.  Then, a

Many movie lovers struggle when asked what their favorite films of all time are, but not me. My answer has been and always will be " Aliens ." I'm not saying that it's the very best movie ever created, but it's certainly the one that most inspired me as a fan of what the movie medium can achieve. It should therefore come as no shock that the " Alien " franchise at large is unquestionably my favorite franchise in cinema history. I love Ellen Ripley . Sigourney Weaver holds a special place inIs it possible that parodying MacGuyver on Saturday Night Live would be able to go where the original series is still trying to tread: the cineplex? If you asked me that two years ago, I would have laughed in your face. But, those were simpler times, days before Ridley Scott was circling a movie based on Monopoly and David Fincher was in pursuit of a Facebook movie. The MacGruber sketches on Saturday Night Live were created by Jorma Taccone, who will occasionally pull directing duties for the Motion picture studio Universal has picked up the rights to produce a film based on the vintage Atari game Asteroids , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Already attached to the project are script writer Matthew Lopez and GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura. This is just the latest in a series of truly bizarre license acquisitions by Universal, which currently has Alien and Gladiator director Ridley Scott working on a movie adaptation of the classic board game MonopolRidley Scott, who parted from the continually-declining Alien franchise after his first installment, is officially returning to direct that prequel people have been talking about . Says Variety : Twentieth Century Fox is resuscitating its "Alien" franchise. The studio has hired Jon Spaihts to write a prequel that has Ridley Scott attached to return as director. Spaihts got the job after pitching the studio and Scott Free, which will produce the film. The film is set up to be a prequel to

We first heard rumours about a possible Ridley Scott adaptation of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World over a year ago, after legal issues surrounding the Huxley estate had finally been settled and Universal managed to secure the rights. At the time, it was said that Leonardo DiCaprio also wanted to play the lead role in the film, but it was still far too early for any official announcements.Now, this week, we have an update on the project from The Hollywood Reporter’s Risky Biz Blog, and it sounds Frosty from Collider was at a special screening of G.I. Joe: Rise of the Cobra last night at  Mann’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood where he chewed the ear of Brian Goldner, President and Chief Executive Officer of Hasbro. Just a reminder: In February of 2008, Universal and Hasbro signed a deal to bring a series of board game and toy properties to the big screen. Among those most buzzed about have been Ridley Scott's Monopoly, Candy Land, Stretch Armstrong and Battleship. Thank the movie gods