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The Studio's Seth Rogen shares Ridley Scott's Monopoly pitch, and it's simple but effective
Yes, the man behind Alien and Gladiator pitched a movie based on the board game Monopoly, and thankfully we can hear it for ourselves, thanks to Seth Rogen
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Ridley Scott is, by any measure, an astonishing filmmaker. With a body of work that includes sci-fi classics like Alien and Blade Runner, historical epics such as Gladiator and Napoleon, or iconic genre-defying movies like Thelma & Louise or Matchstick Men, he’s easily one of the most recognizable directors out there — which makes the notion that he pitched a movie version of the board game Monopoly all the more fascinating. Even better, Seth Rogen has shared exactly what that pitch was.
Rogen, who’s currently promoting his new Apple TV+ show The Studio — in which he plays the head of a Hollywood studio trying to buck the system and still find success — met with Scott 15 years ago to discuss working together on a movie version of the board game. He told Variety that he could remember Scott’s pitch to him “verbatim.”
“It was a meeting with Ridley Scott,” Rogen explained. “He was going to direct the ‘Monopoly’ movie, and me and Evan [Goldberg] went into his office and he said, ‘Imagine a helicopter shot of Central Park. You’re looking down on it from above. You pull up, you see all the buildings surrounding Central Park. What does it look like?’ And then he said, ‘A Monopoly board!’ And were like, ‘Fuck, that’s good.'”
You know, Margot Robbie is currently developing a movie based on Monopoly. (Look, she made Barbie work; she gets to make whatever she wants for awhile.) Someone should see if Scott is still interested in the property all these years later, just in case. After all, he already has a location locked in, it sounds like.
The Studio is now streaming on Apple TV+.
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