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Netflix is rolling the dice on a scaled-up version of the classic board game Monopoly
The streamer has greenlit a competition series, also called Monopoly, that’s set to premiere in 2027. The show will take place on a scaled-up version of the game board and will feature 12 players competing for a $2 million prize. Studio Lambert (The Traitors, Squid Game: The Challenge) is producing the series in association with Hasbro Entertainment
Here’s how Netflix describes Monopoly: “On a life-sized, fully realized Monopoly Town Square, 12 players will enter on equal footing. But equality won’t last long. To survive, contestants mustaccumulate everything, or lose it all. Every negotiation, every decision, and every roll could mean the difference between building an empire and going directly to jail. One by one, bankrupt players are eliminated—until a single winner is left standing to take it all.”
Monopoly has been around for more than 90 years (and was inspired by games that date to the early 1900s) and has basically always been popular. Monopoly Go!, a mobile-phone version of the game, has tens of millions of downloads since it launched in 2023. The board game has also been the basis for a couple of relatively short-lived TV game shows, in 1990 and 2015
Monopoly is executive produced by Gabriel Marano and Zachary Edwin of Hasbro Entertainment and Studio Lambert’s Nia Yemoh, Tim Harcourt, Jack Burgess, Stephen Lambert and Kim Murphy. Netflix has put out a casting call for potential players
