Ridley Scott
Ridley Scott has revealed that he is planning a comedy movie based on the board game Monopoly.
While the movie itself will no feature the board game Scott plans to make the movie about greed and excess.
Speaking to MTV he said: We had a hard time initially, because my head led me down the route of saying, 'Somehow, I have to integrate the game'.
"'Do I have to show the game, with people running around on a board, with the large houses and funny top hats and that sort of thing.' They said, 'No, we just want a movie'. And that makes it a lot easier.
"We came up with a pretty good concept, and what I hope could be the final draft is coming in next month. It's about greed. Greed becomes, hopefully, hysterically funny."
"It has to be a comedy. You know, if you hover above Central Park at night in a helicopter, and you look down below, when you're right in the middle of the park, it looks like a Monopoly board.
"It's green, it's lit, it's got the most expensive real estate in the world around the edges - and that is where we start."
But the director is back on the big screen next month with his re-telling of Robin Hood, which sees him reunite with Russell Crowe.
And Scott looks set to be a busy man with another Alien movie, which is going to be a prequel to the original, also in the pipeline.
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