Monopoly: The Movie could actually be the real deal as sources tell Deadline that Hasbro Entertainment, LuckyChap, and Lionsgate will collaborate with two writing duos, Dumb Money’s Lauren Schuker Blum and Rebecca Aneglo, along with A Minecraft Movie’s Neil Widener and Gavin James, to workshop plots for a feature based around the world’s most popular board game.

There have been attempts at a Monopoly movie before, with little to no success; Lionsgate has been trying for at least a decade. They first tried back in 2015 with Golden Globe nominee Andrew Niccol to write the script; Kevin Hart was also attached to the project at one point. The first stab at bringing Monopoly to the big screen came in 2008, when Universal Studios set up a six-year partnership with Hasbro to develop features based on its toy brands and games. Ridley Scott was attached to direct, but the box-office failure of 2012’s Battleship halted any plans Universal had in store.

James and Widener are known for penning one of the biggest video game adaptations of all time, The Minecraft Movie, and are also expected to write the upcoming A Minecraft Sequel. The duo sold their original film pitch Fortune to Skydance last year and will star Alan Ritchson, with Jerry Bruckheimer attached to produce. Angelo and Schuker Blum are the writers behind Craig Gillespie’s Dumb Money, which centered around the GameStop short squeeze that happened in 2021, and the upcoming Universal’s Murder She Wrote that stars Jamie Lee Curtis.

Right now, there is little information about this development as studio insiders emphasize that it is still “very early days” and “no telling” where this project could go, but they have reportedly seen two outlines and will commission a script from there.