EXCLUSIVE: Monopoly is passing go at Netflix.
Deadline understands that the streamer has landed the truth competitors collection adaptation of the traditional board recreation after a aggressive bidding course of.
The deal is the most recent IP transfer for Netflix within the unscripted house, which has been ramping up technique for broad, big-ticket actuality exhibits that may work within the streaming house. The streamer had success with Squid Recreation: The Problem, is engaged on The Golden Ticket, a contest collection set on the planet of Willy Wonka and is creating a raft of different tasks which have IP tie-ins.
It comes a month after Deadline revealed that Hasbro Leisure had taken out a collection primarily based on the sport to unscripted patrons.
The Monopoly collection is hoping to deliver the legendary recreation to the true 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 take a look at their friendships, purchase riches and attempt to personal all of it by any means needed.
Monopoly has bought round a half-billion copies of the sport have been bought in additional than 100 nations world wide since 1935, when the Parker Brothers started licensing the sport on the market exterior of the U.S. In 2023, Scopely launched Monopoly Go!, a cellular recreation.
It’s separate from a function movie adaptation of the sport, which is within the works from Lionsgate and Margot Robbie’s LuckyChap with John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, who wrote Apple TV+’s Ryan Reynolds and Kenneth Branagh film Mayday penning the script.
Hasbro Leisure can be behind recreation exhibits primarily based on two different traditional board video games – Trivial Pursuit and Scrabble, which have been changed into recreation exhibits by Lionsgate Various Tv for The CW.
Netflix declined to remark.
