So I actually work as a lawyer for one of the production companies putting this together. I was just in a meeting discussing licensing needs and we were given a walkthrough of the outline for the screenplay. This is just posted on Lemmy, so nobody will see it. Be cool and don’t repeat. Here is what I remember…
100% going to be a rich person with a scottie dog wearing a top hat as the villain (big chance Kevin oleary, as Hollywood likely wants to launder that evil ghoul now that they have precedence) owning all the property in the city as a slumlord and living in a big hotel on park place that he owns. He has a yacht that looks like a battleship (game-piece) and in front of his house, a statue of himself on a horse (game piece) that’s also the hood ornament design on his fancy old sports car (game piece). His butler irons his tie with a little golden iron (game piece) in opening scene. He basically “holds all the pieces”.
Hero, named Chance (like the game card), is going to be a kid born on the wrong side of the (Redding Railroad) tracks, who is buying small run down properties and improving them with inheritance found in dead grandpa’s old boot (game piece). Signature trait is that he always carries his lucky dice around (game piece).
As hero rises up, the temporary set back to overcome will be that they “go to jail” for something, but only temporarily.
Comic relief will be that the villain, who hates the rising hero, fumes one day as they open the paper and see that the hero ALSO won a beauty contest?!?!?
Climax is that villain buys Atlantic ave building where hero’s sick grandma lives and raises rent to $10k a month on an apartment she lived in for 60 years with grandpa who has died. Grandma sews gifts for hero (thimble, game piece). She’s going to be homeless. Grandma’s name is Elizabeth Magie (a reference to the actual original creator of the game when it was actually “woke” to the max and called “The Landlord’s Game”).
Everyone in town pitches in at a big block party to form a community chest (game card) to pay Grandmas rent. It’s summer and kids are playing in the fire hydrants in the street. Villain owns the utilities and shuts down the water as a fuck you. But a firefighter who we see briefly as Chance’s childhood friend from “the neighborhood” shows up and uses reserve tank on firetruck to spray in the air for the kids.
Knowing that will only cover temp rent, and villain will just raise rent further (will be some lazy vague reference to a trump figure allowing that corruption). So hero will take community chest money and sell all his properties to villain in a deal that feels like defeat. Villain gives deed to grandma as part of deal. She warns him to “be careful paying that Landlord’s Game” (she said the thing! She admit it! #hashtag)
As villain now gets ready to evict all the families and bulldoze all the cheap properties to build mixed use buildings that are purchased by foreign investors and sit empty with crumbl cookies on ground floor, hero uses villain sale money to purchase a single building, the building villain lives in. Hero has the doorman (fast talking new york type kid, named “Go”) keep villain out of building. Villain owns a media company and has “news” film him dumping a golden wheelbarrow (game-piece) of money into a glass box in front of the building, he then issues a call to the city, “This is my corrupt doorman, Go. Go wants to stop me from improving this city and has locked me out of my building. So, whoever can help me PASS GO, will COLLECT $200 (million) DOLLARS!”
then big fight chaos scene, Go knows karate or something, kill bill music plays, the scottie dog somehow ends up stealing the money in the chaos and finds another dog (comically different dog, lassie or something) to run away with. Also, in middle of everything, someone fires a giant antique cannon (game piece).
Hero finds all the evidence of villain crimes in the building (the golden iron from opening scene was key to a vault door) and villain then goes to jail, for real this time. Villain’s property gets seized and new mayor (a mamdani analog) sells all back to hero at auction for a single, symbolic dollar. Hero then gives ownership back to all the families and ends as the “good billionaire” who owns fancy park place hotel but let’s poor people swim in the pool!!!
And they probably have mark Cuban or an appearance helping the hero somewhere, because “good billionaires” are all around us!!! And because shark tank reference, do you get it!!! Probably a “just visiting” stop at jail with hero to see the villain. And they leave together driving villains antique sportscar.
post credits scene: You see the dogs again relaxing on a tropical beach with butlers bringing steaks. Camera pulls back from beach in a crane shot and you see that the beach town is a realistic version of the Game of Life board.
Black screen
Bookmark it. You’ll see… Or maybe it will just star a new emoji called the Fart Emoji doing the 6 7 hands for two hours.
So I actually work as a lawyer for one of the production companies putting this together. I was just in a meeting discussing licensing needs and we were given a walkthrough of the outline for the screenplay. This is just posted on Lemmy, so nobody will see it. Be cool and don’t repeat. Here is what I remember…
100% going to be a rich person with a scottie dog wearing a top hat as the villain (big chance Kevin oleary, as Hollywood likely wants to launder that evil ghoul now that they have precedence) owning all the property in the city as a slumlord and living in a big hotel on park place that he owns. He has a yacht that looks like a battleship (game-piece) and in front of his house, a statue of himself on a horse (game piece) that’s also the hood ornament design on his fancy old sports car (game piece). His butler irons his tie with a little golden iron (game piece) in opening scene. He basically “holds all the pieces”.
Hero, named Chance (like the game card), is going to be a kid born on the wrong side of the (Redding Railroad) tracks, who is buying small run down properties and improving them with inheritance found in dead grandpa’s old boot (game piece). Signature trait is that he always carries his lucky dice around (game piece).
As hero rises up, the temporary set back to overcome will be that they “go to jail” for something, but only temporarily.
Comic relief will be that the villain, who hates the rising hero, fumes one day as they open the paper and see that the hero ALSO won a beauty contest?!?!?
Climax is that villain buys Atlantic ave building where hero’s sick grandma lives and raises rent to $10k a month on an apartment she lived in for 60 years with grandpa who has died. Grandma sews gifts for hero (thimble, game piece). She’s going to be homeless. Grandma’s name is Elizabeth Magie (a reference to the actual original creator of the game when it was actually “woke” to the max and called “The Landlord’s Game”).
Everyone in town pitches in at a big block party to form a community chest (game card) to pay Grandmas rent. It’s summer and kids are playing in the fire hydrants in the street. Villain owns the utilities and shuts down the water as a fuck you. But a firefighter who we see briefly as Chance’s childhood friend from “the neighborhood” shows up and uses reserve tank on firetruck to spray in the air for the kids.
Knowing that will only cover temp rent, and villain will just raise rent further (will be some lazy vague reference to a trump figure allowing that corruption). So hero will take community chest money and sell all his properties to villain in a deal that feels like defeat. Villain gives deed to grandma as part of deal. She warns him to “be careful paying that Landlord’s Game” (she said the thing! She admit it! #hashtag)
As villain now gets ready to evict all the families and bulldoze all the cheap properties to build mixed use buildings that are purchased by foreign investors and sit empty with crumbl cookies on ground floor, hero uses villain sale money to purchase a single building, the building villain lives in. Hero has the doorman (fast talking new york type kid, named “Go”) keep villain out of building. Villain owns a media company and has “news” film him dumping a golden wheelbarrow (game-piece) of money into a glass box in front of the building, he then issues a call to the city, “This is my corrupt doorman, Go. Go wants to stop me from improving this city and has locked me out of my building. So, whoever can help me PASS GO, will COLLECT $200 (million) DOLLARS!”
then big fight chaos scene, Go knows karate or something, kill bill music plays, the scottie dog somehow ends up stealing the money in the chaos and finds another dog (comically different dog, lassie or something) to run away with. Also, in middle of everything, someone fires a giant antique cannon (game piece).
Hero finds all the evidence of villain crimes in the building (the golden iron from opening scene was key to a vault door) and villain then goes to jail, for real this time. Villain’s property gets seized and new mayor (a mamdani analog) sells all back to hero at auction for a single, symbolic dollar. Hero then gives ownership back to all the families and ends as the “good billionaire” who owns fancy park place hotel but let’s poor people swim in the pool!!!
And they probably have mark Cuban or an appearance helping the hero somewhere, because “good billionaires” are all around us!!! And because shark tank reference, do you get it!!! Probably a “just visiting” stop at jail with hero to see the villain. And they leave together driving villains antique sportscar.
post credits scene: You see the dogs again relaxing on a tropical beach with butlers bringing steaks. Camera pulls back from beach in a crane shot and you see that the beach town is a realistic version of the Game of Life board.
Black screen
Bookmark it. You’ll see… Or maybe it will just star a new emoji called the Fart Emoji doing the 6 7 hands for two hours.