With the exception of Peter Berg’s Battleship, it has been starting to look like cooler heads might prevail when it comes to the recent board game and retro toy craze in Hollywood. Most of the announced movies based on playthings have been slow to materialize, with some studios choosing to wait and see how Battleship does before they spend more money on their own board game blockbuster. Even Universal, which entered a partnership with Hasbro to produce a number of these films, has decided to drop a few of their projects (including the Ouija movie) due to budgetary concerns. But still the madness continues! According to Heat Vision, Hasbro is moving forward on their Monopoly movie without Universal, and yes Ridley Scott is still attached to direct.

This week it was announced that screenwriters Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski have been hired to write the script for Monopoly. Alexander and Karaszewski are both fairly accomplished scribes who won a Golden Globe for their screenplay for The People vs. Larry Flynt. Some of their other credits include Ed Wood, Man on the Moon and 1408.

Once again, you have to wonder if these people actually see anything in a Monopoly movie other than dollar signs (both literally and figuratively). With Ridley Scott currently hard at work on Prometheus and recently signing on for a Blade Runner sequel, it’s hard to imagine him having any passion for a project like this. Earlier this year, Hasbro CEO Brian Goldner had this to say:

“Monopoly is still happening, and we’re developing a great story. It’s a very fun take. Ridley Scott is still the perfect creative steward, because he creates these great, fictionalized worlds. It’s going to be a very fun story to tell. It’s a very human and personal story. It’s not really Wall Street, not at all. It’s a fictionalized story of a family, and there’s a lot of intrigue in the story. Suffice it to say, it’s a story about a family with a history, and we’re projecting that into current times. But it’s not Wall Street.’ It’s more about property ownership and of the play-pattern of the game.”

Do you think this will actually see the light of day, and once again, is it actually possible to make a decent movie based on a board game?