Overview
- Lionsgate, LuckyChap and Hasbro Entertainment moved on the project on Friday by soliciting competing outlines from two separate writing teams and planning to commission a single script from them.
- The two teams are Neil Widener and Gavin James, known for A Minecraft Movie, and Rebecca Angelo and Lauren Schuker Blum, who wrote Dumb Money.
- The film effort is in very early development and its direction remains uncertain after an earlier Daley and Goldstein screenplay attached in March 2025 did not move forward.
- Hasbro is pursuing a parallel strategy by developing an unscripted Monopoly series for Netflix with Studio Lambert, indicating the brand will be expanded across multiple formats.
- Lionsgate gained the right to develop Monopoly through its eOne acquisition and the property’s long history of stalled adaptations helps explain the studio’s cautious, iterative approach and the likelihood that final decisions will move slowly.