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‘Monopoly’ Movie in the Works From Margot Robbie and Lionsgate

variety.com ‘Monopoly’ Movie in the Works From Margot Robbie and Lionsgate

After taking on the plastic, fantastic world of "Barbie," producer Margot Robbie is heading to the land of "Monopoly."

Movies @lemmy.world 'Monopoly' Movie From Margot Robbie, Lionsgate in the Works

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Goddammit I thought this thread title had to be from The Onion

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This is going to be a documentary of current times, where all the wealth is redistributed to rich?

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- That's what I'm hoping, just very much not optimistically. Corpos will usually allow things like feminism (the Barbie movie, for example), but I can't see them being cool with telling the tale of wealth inequality. Maybe a super watered-down version where one poor person gets a better outcome, but nothing systematic is changed. They're typically ok with stuff like that. (Like the whole Undercover Boss model, where the boss pays off someone's tuition or whatever but wages remain the same.)
  
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  Capitalism is a system that sustains itself even if literally everyone knows how evil it is. This is part of the fundamental conceit.
  
  Capitalists literally have nothing to gain by "hiding" some truths, as if the masses were living with a veil in front of their eyes that one can just pull back to radicalize them. We were all there in 2008. We all saw behind the curtain. Literally nothing fundamentally changed and no movie is going to come close to having that cultural impact.
  
  Also capitalists aren't any less prone to the tragedy of the commons than any other group of people. One corporation would end capitalism next quarter if they believed it would make them richer this quarter.
  
  The truth is much simpler than any conspiracy theory: Hollywood is largely systematically incapable of competent social commentary. There are occasional brilliant exceptions, but rampant nepotism, incompetent corporate meddling, and a strong history/culture of "character stories" means that Hollywood doesn't know how to make a story about anything other than a character story.
  
  Anyway if the topic interests you here's a one hour essay on how Apple failed to adapt Foundation, with a truly masterful ending on an anticapitalist message.
  
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I mean, it seems like a weird IP for a movie, but I suppose if anyone can pull it off its them.

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- Don't forget they did battleship. Hollywood's completely out of ideas.
  
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  Battleship is one of the worst game movies. Whereas Clue is probably the best game movie ever. We really won't know until we see it.
  
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  Honestly, I feel like Mouse Trap has the potential for a fun cinematic twist. See: Mouse Hunt
  
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  That’s the thing. There’s no shortage of ideas. Hollywood is not out of ideas. They’re out of courage. They’re terrified of taking a risk on anything that’s not attached to some existing brand.
  
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  To be fair they were doing movies like clue, long before battleship. Additionally, clue is a great example of a board game movie done right
  
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  Was it this production company that did Battleship though? I don't think they were around back then.
  
  I'm definitely with you on Hollywood apparently bring out of ideas, and I don't think Monopoly is a great idea for a movie ... Just that if any producers can pull it off, it'll be them.
  
  That said, the Clue movie from the 80s was actually good. Perhaps with Monopoly (unlike Battleship) having an actual established character of sorts, that could make all the difference.
  
  Either way, I'm way more excited for The Sims movie that these folks are also making. I think that genuinely offers some real possibilities for storytelling a la what they did with Barbie.
  
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- It could be a biting criticism of capitalism, as that's what the game was originally designed as. Although there's no way Parker Brothers would allow that.
  
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  Didnt Parker Brothers originally great the game as a biting criticism of Capitalism? Why would they oppose its intention?
  
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- It's vague enough that they can work a decent story and add all the monopoly elements. It's not like monopoly has lore
  
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  As long as it takes place in Atlantic City. If it doesn’t take a walk on the Boardwalk I don’t know what I would do.
  
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- I hope they follow the real rules and not house rules. Movies gonna be 35 minutes of someone getting lucky and slowly buying up everything. the rest of the movie is the cast now working two jobs to pay the rent that was raised so that whoever is winning can buy boardwalk. The poorest one is constantly having to pay to get out of jail.
  
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NPR has a great piece on the origin of Monopoly.

Monopoly was designed by a socialist to demonstrate that capitalism is flawed, since the game eventually ends with all of the wealth in one player’s possession. Interestingly, the creator also included an alternative “Prosperity” rule, where all players received payment from a property purchase. All of this was omitted and replaced with the notion that “anyone can be rich” in capitalism when pitched to Parker Brothers.

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- And Monopoly is based on The Landlord's Game, which was created to be a "practical demonstration of the present system of land grabbing with all its usual outcomes and consequences".
  
  Designed by Elizabeth Magie between 1902 and 1903. She based the game on the economic principles of Georgism, a system proposed by Henry George, with the object of demonstrating how rents enrich property owners and impoverish tenants.
  
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  Exactly! I couldn’t remember, and you’re absolutely right. The “Prosperity” version of the rules was based on Georgism.
  
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I hope they don’t make Chris Pratt the monopoly guy. I can’t take it anymore.

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April… fools?!

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- First thing I did was check the date, but if it's a joke, it's nine days late.
  
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  Time zones bruh
  
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I heard Margot Robbie is going to play the Battleship.

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- They already made a battleship movie
  
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  They should have the battle ship from the battleship movie reprise it's role in the monopoly movie and make it the gameiverse.
  
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This would actually make sense if it was biopic about Elizabeth Magie.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Landlord's_Game

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Monopoly? the game that was created to teach people how they're being screwed by landlords? and they want to make this into a movie?

I feel like Theodor Adorno would be shaking his head

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- What's wrong with teaching our youth about the risks of capitalism?
  
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  Can you trust a big comoany to do it?
  
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I mean, she did explain subprime mortgages pretty well.

Maybe she can create a movie exposing the horrors of unfettered capitalism.

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Isn't Monopoly supposed to be critic of capitlism but noone gets it (like Fight Club is a take on toxic masculinity but toxic douchebags love it because the don't understand it)?

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The whole movie is a spinoff of that one scene in Wolf of Wall Street.

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- Where he's trying to crawl to his Countach?
  
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Barbie, The Sims and now Monopoly... What other things from her childhood will she turn into a movie? EZ Bake Oven?

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- Personally, I'm holding out for Lite-Brite: The Movie.
  
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- The only thing dumber would be if someone tried to make a movie about Battleship.
  
  Wait...
  
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  I thought it actually manged well all things considered.
  
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- Live action Simpsons
  
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  If the production value is even half as good as the porn, that would be kinda neat.
  
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- Hasbro gonna Hasbro.
  
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Margot, does it still feel weird to see articles about yourself?

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This is getting ridiculous.

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I'd like to audition for the part of the thimble please. I don't have legs, so I could tuck right in there and everything!

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Monopoly originated as a critique of both capitalism and communism. But then the creator sold it and it was turned into capitalism simulator where it teaches that only having the most is a winning strategy. So this'll be weird.

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Finally a Jumanji movie where everyone loses.

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I just hope they don't make it political like everything else these days

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- I've heard this sentiment expressed unironically so many times that it gives me pause for a moment even when used as a joke.
  
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