Netflix Orders ‘Monopoly’ Competition Series With $2 Million Dollar Prize
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- Netflix announced casting for a "Monopoly" competition series where 12 players will compete on a life-sized Monopoly Town Square, using strategy, alliances and dealmaking, with bankrupt players eliminated until one wins the $2 million prize.
- The series premieres in fall 2027 and is made in partnership with Hasbro Entertainment and produced by Studio Lambert, the studio behind Netflix's "Squid Game: The Challenge" and "The Circle."
- Hasbro Entertainment's Gabriel Marano and Zachary Edwin will executive produce alongside Studio Lambert's Nia Yemoh, Tim Harcourt, Jack Burgess, Stephen Lambert and Kim Murphy.
- Hasbro also announced a Monopoly film deal with LuckyChap and Lionsgate, and is developing scripted and unscripted "Clue" reimaginings plus a live-action "Dungeons & Dragons" series currently in development at Netflix.
- The show joins Netflix's board-game adaptation slate alongside "Wonka's The Golden Ticket," an unscripted Roald Dahl "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" adaptation premiering Sept. 23 on the platform.
- "Monopoly" debuted in 1935 and has sold over 275 million copies worldwide, giving the series one of the largest back-catalogs of any board-game IP being adapted.
Why it matters: Studio Lambert's track record with Netflix ('Squid Game: The Challenge,' 'The Circle') de-risks the $2 million-prize competition, and Hasbro's simultaneous Monopoly film at Lionsgate plus a live-action D&D series at Netflix turns Monopoly from a single board-game adaptation into a multi-format, multi-studio franchise push.
