Deadline is reporting that Tim Story will direct Kevin Hart in Lionsgate and Hasbro’s live-action feature Monopoly, inspired by the iconic board game.
Hart, John Cheng and Carli Haney will produce for Hart’s HartBeat Productions label. Story and Prince Of Peoria exec producer Sharla Sumpter Bridgett will produce for The Story Company. Hasbro is co-producing via its Allspark Pictures label with the company’s Brian Goldner, Stephen Davis and Greg Mooradian serving as producers.
The site states that the logline is being kept under wraps for now and a writer and shoot date have not been set. A previous version of the project centered on a young man from the game’s modest Baltic Avenue on a quest to make a fortune.
Hasbro has been plotting a movie based on its hit board game — which has been played by an estimated one billion people in 114 countries — for at least a decade.
Hart recently had the number one stateside opening last weekend of The Upside. His recent films have been profitable with The Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle, Night School and Central Intelligence.
Together, Hart and Story have worked on Think Like a Man, Ride Along, Think Like a Man Too, and Ride Along 2. Seven of Story’s films have debuted number one at the box office.
Next out for Hart is The Secret Life Of Pets 2, which has a summer release. Next up for Story is New Line’s Shaft, starring Samuel L Jackson, also out this summer.
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