EXCLUSIVE: A slew of broadcast networks and streamers are battling it out to go go on an unscripted TV adaptation of traditional board recreation Monopoly.
The mission, which comes from Hasbro Leisure, has been heating up the truth TV market in latest weeks.
The Monopoly collection is seeking to carry the legendary recreation to the actual world in a large-scale social experiment contest. Technique, alliances, and cutthroat competitors will collide as contestants battle for fortune and navigate the high-quality line between capitalism and chaos. Gamers will check their friendships, purchase riches, and attempt to personal all of it by any means crucial.
Hasbro mentioned that round a half a billion copies of the sport have been offered in additional than 100 international locations all over the world since 1935 when the Parker Brothers started licensing the sport on the market outdoors of the U.S. In 2024, Scopely launched Monopoly Go!, a cell recreation.
The collection comes as Hasbro Leisure is at present engaged on characteristic movie adaptation of the sport, alongside Lionsgate and Margot Robbie’s LuckyChap. Deadline revealed yesterday that John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, who wrote Apple TV+’s Ryan Reynolds and Kenneth Branagh film Mayday, will pen the script.
It’s the newest unscripted collection to be primarily based on IP, a rising development throughout the enterprise. Netflix is making a second season of Squid Sport: The Problem and is engaged on a Willy Wonka collection; Fox has Lego Masters, CBS turned Josh Duhamel’s Buddy Video games right into a actuality competiton, Peacock made a collection primarily based on Frogger, and Sony, which just lately snapped up the rights to Hasbro’s Clue, has been exploring a number of actuality collection primarily based on its characteristic movie library.
Hasbro Leisure itself has turned two of its different iconic board video games – Trivial Pursuit and Scrabble – into gameshows for The CW.
