Beddor Reveals Monopoly Story Details

Producer/author Frank Beddor ("The Looking Glass Wars") revealed details of the story he pitched for the Monopoly movie that got Ridley Scott interested in directing. Speaking to the Los Angeles Times , Beddor gave a lot of info on what you can expect. Here's an excerpt:

I created a comedic, lovable loser who lives in Manhattan and works at a real estate company and heÂ's not very good at his job but heÂ's great at playing Monopoly. And the world record for playing is 70 straight days – over 1,600 hours – and he wanted to try to convince his friends to help him break that world record. They think he is crazy. They kid him about this girl and they're playing the game and thereÂ's this big fight. And heÂ's holding a Chance card and after theyÂ've left he says, Â'Damn, I wanted...