A Monopoly movie is coming courtesy of Margot Robbie and Lionsgate

/ A live-action movie inspired by the Monopoly board game is in the works at Lionsgate, with Margot Robbie’s LuckyChap producing.

By Charles Pulliam-Moore, a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years.

Art from the Monopoly mobile game produced by Marmalade Game Studio. Image: Marmalade Game Studio / Hasbro

Monopoly — a board game about forcing people into bankruptcy by buying up as much real estate as possible — does not seem like something that would make for an entertaining cinematic escape from reality, but Lionsgate plans to test that

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