Finally, the Movie Adaptation of Monopoly is Coming to Fruition

February 26th, 2009Blog0 comments

Hollywood’s insidious plan to adapt Things That Many People Have Heard Of into movies continues. The video game Street Fighter has been adapted once again into a movie (sans JCVD) — Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li comes out tomorrow.

(If I had been in charge of making this movie, it would have been titled Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li: The Shower Scenes: The Movie. In my title, “Shower Scenes” is a plural because there would be many of them in my movie. Also, colons are good in a movie title because they let people know where to place their dramatic pauses.)

But it’s not just video games they’re making into movies — we’re also talking board games:

“Transformer’s” Michael Bay has been linked to a Ouija movie, Verbinski to Clue, ” Hancock’s” Pete Berg to Battleship, “Enchanted’s” Kevin Lima to Candy Land and “Gladiator’s” Ridley Scott to — we kid you not — Monopoly.

Source: LA Times.

MONOPOLY MOVIE! Phillip Seymour Hoffman is in talks to play the Top Hat, while Hugh Jackman has already been locked in to play the Thimble.

I think he’ll make a great Thimble.