EXCLUSIVE: A slew of broadcast networks and streamers are battling it out to cross go on an unscripted TV adaptation of traditional board recreation Monopoly.
The challenge, which comes from Hasbro Entertainment, has been heating up the truth TV market in latest weeks.
The Monopoly sequence is seeking to convey the legendary recreation to the true world in a large-scale social experiment contest. Strategy, alliances, and cutthroat competitors will collide as contestants battle for fortune and navigate the high quality line between capitalism and chaos. Players will take a look at their friendships, purchase riches, and attempt to personal all of it by any means needed.
Hasbro mentioned that round a half a billion copies of the sport have been offered in additional than 100 international locations world wide 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 sequence comes as Hasbro Entertainment is at the moment engaged on function 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 is the most recent unscripted sequence to be based mostly on IP, a rising development throughout the enterprise. Netflix is making a second season of Squid Game: The Challenge and is engaged on a Willy Wonka sequence; Fox has Lego Masters, CBS turned Josh Duhamel’s Buddy Games right into a actuality competiton, Peacock made a sequence based mostly on Frogger, and Sony, which not too long ago snapped up the rights to Hasbro’s Clue, has been exploring a number of actuality sequence based mostly on its function movie library.
Hasbro Entertainment itself has turned two of its different iconic board video games – Trivial Pursuit and Scrabble – into gameshows for The CW.