Toy maker Hasbro is bringing the Monopoly board game to the silver screen, in a movie about a boy’s quest to make his fortune and avoid jail time. Andrew Niccol, who was nominated for an Academy Award for writing Jim Carrey’s “The Truman Show”, will write the screenplay for the movie, to be co-produced by Hasbro and Lions Gate Entertainment. Invented more than a century ago, 275 million copies of the Monopoly board game have been sold in 47 languages. The story for the movie reportedly centers on a boy from Baltic Avenue, one of the cheapest properties on the board, who uses both Chance and Community cards to make his fortune.
