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Margot Robbie produces “Monopoly” film

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Last summer you wore your prettiest pink outfits while visiting Barbienow get ready to put on your finest top hat and monocle: Margot Robbie produces one monopoly Movie. Lionsgate announced at CinemaCon on Wednesday that it would be working with Robbie's LuckyChap production company, according to diversitythe audience full of theater owners “cheered loudly at the news.”

This announcement follows news that Robbie will also be producing one Sims Movie. The woman loves gaming! More specifically, she's found a formula that she believes works every time. Take a piece of intellectual property from people's childhood and profit from it. This resulted in almost $2 billion Barbieand Robbie and her production team are clearly hoping to repeat the success with both the game that pits everyone in your family against each other and the game that taught a generation of women to WooHoo.

At CinemaCon, Lionsgate chairman Adam Fogelson told the audience that LuckyChap had “a clear position” on what that was monopoly film will be. Based on nothing, here's my guess what that viewpoint is. A naive young woman becomes radicalized when she gets a job with real estate developer Rich Uncle Pennybags and realizes that the whole thing Game Capitalism is rigged in favor of the one percent. She decides to try to bring him down from the inside, but once she starts making money herself, she's faced with the decision of whether to stick to her morals or abandon them in favor of cold hard cash. Yadda yadda yadda, she comes to an important conclusion on the boardwalk, there's a cheeky visual joke where she passes a big sign that says “GO,” and Rich Uncle Pennnybags ends up in jail. Now we just have to think about which historical figure from the 20th century we can associate this with. Maybe Henry Ford? Fordopol weekend?