Lionsgate Developing Two 'Monopoly' Films

Monopoly, one of the world's best-known board games — home to the "get out of jail free" card and the mascot Mr. Monopoly — has never had a feature-film adaptation. After languishing in development for nearly two decades, the property may finally move toward production.

Lionsgate has hired two writing teams to develop competing Monopoly scripts. One team is Neil Widener and Gavin James, who are credited on the $950 million-grossing A Minecraft Movie. The other consists of Rebecca Angelo and Lauren Schuker Blum, the writers of the 2023 dark satire Dumb Money.

Lionsgate, LuckyChap Entertainment and Hasbro Films will advance only one of the pitches. The game's origins date to Lizzie Magie's 1903 The Landlord's Game; Parker Brothers first published Monopoly in 1935, and Hasbro became its distributor after buying Parker Brothers in 1993.

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