Lionsgate's Monopoly Movie to Get Screenplay From Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves Writers

The upcoming Monopoly movie from Lionsgate conscionable recovered its writers successful John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, the writers and directors down Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves.

Announced today, Daley and Goldenstein volition constitute the screenplay for the movie based connected Hasbro's committee game. As we've learned previously, the movie volition beryllium produced by Margot Robbie arsenic a portion of her accumulation company, LuckyChap.

Alongside Honor Among Thieves, Daley and Goldenstein besides precocious wrote and directed their ain archetypal film, Mayday. They were besides writers connected The Flash and Spider-Man: Homecoming.

A Monopoly movie has been discussed for years, going backmost to reports successful 2007 that Ridley Scott expressed involvement successful directing specified a film. In 2011, Scott tapped Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski to constitute the script, but that mentation of the movie conscionable seemed to fizzle out. Then successful 2015, Lionsgate and Hasbro teamed up connected another mentation written by Andrew Niccol, and past it was reported successful 2019 that actor Kevin Hart and manager Tim Story would beryllium involved.

It sounds similar perfectly nary of that is coming to pass, though, since Lionsgate's acquisition of eOne from Hasbro kickstarted efforts connected specified a movie anew. Hopefully this mentation of the movie passes Go.

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