Hasbro Still Developing Movies Based On ‘Monopoly,’ ‘Hungry Hungry Hippos,’ And ‘Action Man’
Details are sparse butHasbrohas once again passed “Go” and collected way more than $200. Over the past few years, the toy and game company’s relationship with Hollywoodhad kind of soured, resulting in Universal severing ties with the company and their properties. Still confident there’s something there though, Hasbro has now signed a deal with the production companyEmmett/Furla, which recently producedEnd of Watch, to develop three movies in the next two years based onMonopoly, Hungry Hungry HipposandAction Man. They hope to haveMonopolyin front of cameras as early as next year. Read more after the jump.
The Hollywood Reporterbroke the news of the deal but no mention was made of writers for any of the properties. The producers will be Hasbro as well as company heads Randall Emmett and George Furla, Brandon Grimes and Envision Entertainment will co-finance.Monopolyis the popular board game about real estate,Hungry Hungry Hipposfeatures a bunch of hippos eating little pellets andAction Manis basically a foreign version ofG.I. Joe.
Originally Hasbro and Universal had a deal to make movies ofBattleship, Stretch Armstrong, Quija, Monopoly, Magic the GatheringandClue. The only one to actually see the light of day wasBattleship,which wasn’t considered a success. Others got to various stages of development (Stretchhad Taylor Lautner attached;Ouijahad McG as a director and a full script;Monopolyhad Ridley Scott attached) but ultimately Universal found they were too expensive.
I still find it hard to picture aMonopolymovie, but since major filmmakers had thoughts on it, obviously there’s a way to do it. Action Manseems pretty obvious butHungry Hungry Hippos? Wouldn’t it have to be animated? Do you think these movies will see the light of day this time around?
