Monopoly is becoming its own game show with $2 million prize
Netflix is adapting Monopoly into a new competitive series based on a "life-size" version of the beloved board game.
Netflix is turning Monopoly into a game show with a massive $2 million prize.
The streaming giant is teaming up with Studio Lambert - the company behind the likes of The Traitors, Race Across The World, Squid Game: The Challenge and Naked Attraction - on a competition series based on the iconic Hasbro board game which has caused countless family feuds over the years.
In a press release, the streamer said: "Contestants will be immersed in a life-size Monopoly Town Square where they’ll have the opportunity to earn money, buy properties, negotiate deals, and hopefully stay out of jail."
Netflix will bring "the world of Monopoly to life" in the new show, with 12 players competing for the $2m prize pot.
They added: "One by one, bankrupt players will be eliminated while others build their empire — until the one person left standing takes it all."
The team joked that "a get-out-of-jail-free card is not included" with the cash prize.
The Monopoly series is coming in autumn 2027, and applications are open now for people hoping to be cast.
Anyone applying needs to be at least 21 years old, a legal resident of the US, and have a valid passport for the filming period.
Filming will take place for "up to 3 weeks", although producers noted this could change "without notice".
On the casting page, potential contestants are asked upload a one minute video "telling us about yourself, why you want to be on Monopoly, what your game plan would be and what you would do with a huge prize if you won".
It's over year since Netflix announced its deal with Hasbro Entertainment for Monopoly, which has sold half a billion copies in over 100 countries around the world since 1935.
In 2023, Monopoly Go! launched as a mobile-phone version of the game, and it's amassed tens of millions of downloads since then.
The upcoming show isn't the first attempt at a Monopoly TV adaptation, after ABC's attempt in 1990, and Family Game Night from 2011 to 2014.
Meanwhile, Hasbro has experience turning classic board games into game shows, after Lionsgate Alternative Television adapted Trivial Pursuit and Scrabble for The CW in the US.
