edit: Realizing how stupid that sounds. but monopoly has always seemed so British. Even down to Uncle Pennybags, but this drastic change. My childhood ruined.

Really?  I always thought he was very much an old-timey (as in the 30's, when the game came out) American business tycoon.  Huh.


Also Clue worked because it has a plot.  Not a complex one, but a plot.  You have a set of people in a mansion, and while they're in that mansion someone is mysteriously murdered.  They then have to figure out which of them did it.  That's all the plot you need to bulk it up until a movie.  You don't need a huge plot, you just need A PLOT.  Hell, you could make a Settlers of Catan movie if you really wanted (let's...settle this island...).  There's not many plot points in a game in which a bunch of inanimate objects are buying up properties.

Even the other two sound a little more possible.  The Ouija board would probably be more of like a key prop instead of the actual plot (what if....ouija boards are real....gotta trust it...to stay alive).  Battleship at least has...SHIP BATTLES I guess.  I don't know how that would really make a movie.  I almost picture a kind of Ender's Game "THIS WAS ACTUALLY REAL" situation but that would be a p. bad movie.  All of these will probably be bad movies but at least you can stretch these two into plots.  I have no idea what monopoly could possibly be.

Oh God this better not turn out to be an April/middle of November fool's joke

nah man I heard about this ages ago from a transformers site about the same time TF2 was announced. It's too long to be some prank.
Also I kinda get the idea of high fast real estate agents trying to one-up each other and build their fortune... Ridley scott will in his sepia-toned majesty show us the foils of capitalism in it's finest. there will be anger and heartbreak as old kent road gets brought out by a battleship and the hat&shoe alliance enter a fierce bidding war with a dog.

Actually I imagine it like Jumanji with tophats

This is stupid. There's no way they could ever get it to work.

Now if they made Star-Wars Monopoly into a movie, THAT would be something worth seeing!

No dudes this movie will be fucking amazing. Uncle Pennybags? Jesus.

I thought Ridley Scott was going back to making sci-fi movies come on.

I mean this sounds awesome as long as there is actually a character called UNCLE PENNYBAGS but I always thought Scott was at his best doing sci-fi.  Granted he's only done two as far as I know (Blade Runner and Alien) but I have never really given a shit about Gladiator or American Gangster or anything.

yeah it will probably be like kaworu described except the people will be nicknamed like iron and thimble and shit, and uncle pennybags will be in the background just chilling, maybe he'll go to jail for a couple weeks, maybe not. maybe someone will have to pay a luxury tax even.

speaking of different versions of monopoly has anyone ever played the boston/lord of the rings versions? i haven't played the latter but it sounds... pretty great

Btw was Body of Lies any good?

it kind of looked interesting the first time I saw the ad/trailer but then it felt like all I could figure out was it has Enemy of the State-style shots all over the place + some Bourne Identity maybe + Iraq or something + somebody yelling but I'm not sure if it was like frustrated or ow I just slammed my nuts in the car door kind of yell

I thought Ridley Scott was going back to making sci-fi movies come on.

He is.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Ridley will give the Monopoly movie a futuristic edge akin to his 1982 epic Blade Runner.

Maaan, I just want to watch a trailer now and get it out of the way. It's impossible to know what they're going to come up with.

yeah in clue you take characters. its not much but its more than a game where you play a tophat trying to bankrupt a shoe.

since we're going down this road it's cluedo you americans !!!

but seriously my fellow brits did you not know it was only London in our version? Most countries have a localised version!

yeah i knew that and always found the name change a good idea if kind of out of nowhere because cluedo sounds like a latin suffix instead of a game.

looks like steel's got something against latin suffixes...

fuck dem latins

monopolo got renamed monopoly btw. s4d dont give a fuck about registered trademarks.

yeah i knew that and always found the name change a good idea if kind of out of nowhere because cluedo sounds like a latin suffix instead of a game.

oh yeah I remember that it was so surreal

what the fuck is a cluedo