EXCLUSIVE: Monopoly is passing go at Netflix.
Deadline understands that the streamer has landed the reality competition series adaptation of the classic board game after a competitive bidding process.
The deal is the latest IP move for Netflix in the unscripted space, which has been ramping up strategy for broad, big-ticket reality shows that can work in the streaming space. The streamer had success with Squid Game: The Challenge, is working on The Golden Ticket, a competition series set in the world of Willy Wonka and is developing a raft of other projects that have IP tie-ins.
It comes a month after Deadline revealed that Hasbro Entertainment had taken out a series based on the game to unscripted buyers.
The Monopoly series is hoping to bring the legendary game to the real world in a large-scale social-experiment contest. Strategy, alliances and cutthroat competition will collide as contestants battle for fortune and navigate the fine line between capitalism and chaos. Players will test their friendships, acquire riches and try to own it all by any means necessary.
Monopoly has sold around a half-billion copies of the game have been sold in more than 100 countries around the world since 1935, when the Parker Brothers began licensing the game for sale outside of the U.S. In 2023, Scopely released Monopoly Go!, a mobile game.
It is separate from a feature film adaptation of the game, which is in the works from Lionsgate and Margot Robbie’s LuckyChap with John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, who wrote Apple TV+’s Ryan Reynolds and Kenneth Branagh movie Mayday penning the script.
Hasbro Entertainment is also behind game shows based on two other classic board games – Trivial Pursuit and Scrabble, which have been turned into game shows by Lionsgate Alternative Television for The CW.
Netflix declined to comment.
