“I could not imagine a better production team for this beloved and iconic brand than LuckyChap,” Lionsgate Motion Picture Group Chair Adam Fogelson stated in a information launch Wednesday. “They are exceptional producers who choose their projects with great thought and care and join Monopoly with a clear point of view.”

LuckyChap, which Robbie leads alongside along with her husband, Tom Ackerley, and Josey McNamara, was instrumental within the success of “Barbie.” After the corporate joined the manufacturing workforce, Robbie satisfied Mattel and Warner Bros. of the film’s huge potential and the necessity for Greta Gerwig to be its director.

The movie grossed greater than $1 billion on the field workplace final summer time and have become a popular culture hit. Fans flocked to film theaters wearing pink costumes and glitter to rejoice the movie. “Barbie” snagged one Oscar award in March when Billie Eilish’s “What Was I Made For?” gained finest authentic music.

“Monopoly is a top property — pun fully intended,” stated LuckyChap in a information launch. “Like all of the best IP, this game has resonated worldwide for generations, and we are so excited to bring this game to life alongside the wonderful teams involved at Lionsgate and Hasbro.”

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Robbie and LuckyChap are on a roll with toy- and game-themed initiatives. Last month, Robbie’s manufacturing arm introduced a film primarily based on The Sims, a well-liked online game the place gamers lead simulated folks by simulated lives. The sport had a large following within the early 2000s and remains to be round at present with varied new renditions.

Despite some hypothesis on-line that Robbie may be carving out a distinct segment as an auteur of sport and toy movies, her firm has labored on many productions unrelated to video games since “Barbie,” together with “Saltburn” and “My Old Ass.”

A movie in regards to the capitalistic board sport Monopoly shall be one other try by Hasbro to show its mental property right into a field workplace success. So far, it has seen combined outcomes. Though Transformers motion pictures preserve coming in droves and snag millions, only one (a by-product, thoughts you) has had crucial reward. Similarly, the toy firm’s motion pictures “Battleship” (2012) and “Power Rangers” (2017), in addition to motion pictures primarily based on the Ouija board sport and G.I. Joe, have been critically panned with middling field workplace returns.

Hollywood has shifted its gaze towards toy-based motion pictures following the success of “Barbie” and the animated “Lego Movie” earlier than it. There’s already an “emotional and grounded and gritty” story about Hot Wheels automobiles by J.J. Abrams (cue the lens flare) in improvement, in addition to a “Polly Pocket” film by Lena Dunham. And Vin Diesel has already punched his ticket to make a Rock ’Em Sock ’Em Robots film. Mattel has also teased movies about — deep breath — American Girl dolls, Barney, the Magic 8 Ball, motion determine Major Matt Mason, the Masters of the Universe, Thomas the Tank Engine, the cardboard sport Uno and the ocular toy View-Master.

It’s unclear what a Monopoly film will appear like. The more-than-a-century-old board game is a largely luck-based competitors to amass actual property, whose solely recognizable character is the top-hat-wearing Monopoly man (or Rich Uncle Milburn Pennybags). Hasbro Entertainment’s head of movie, Zev Foreman, stated the sport “provides an incredible platform for storytelling opportunities.”

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Director Ridley Scott informed Vulture again in 2010 that he had an concept for a Monopoly film “with the large houses and funny top hats and that sort of thing.” Hasbro nixed the concept, so he reimagined it as one thing a couple of Donald Trump-like character having to work with actual property tycoons. “It’s about greed,” he informed Vulture. “… Greed becomes, hopefully, hysterically funny.”

Some folks have already theorized that the film will mimic the sport itself: “It’s going to go on way too long and the ending will be really obvious an hour out,” wrote Robert Colvile on X.