The board game Monopoly is now going to be at the center of another movie, according to Deadline.

The new film is going to focus on the drama behind the history of the game and will be produced by independent film company Big Beach (Safety Not Guaranteed, Little Miss Sunshine). Another Monopoly film is already in the works from Lionsgate, though it is adapting the ideas of the board game to the silver screen (see "Lionsgate Takes a Shot at the 'Monopoly' Movie") rather than telling the historical account.

The movie will be scripted by Howard A. Rodman (Joe Gould's Secret) and will be based primarily on Mary Pilon's best-selling non-fiction book The Monopolists: Obsession, Fury, and the Scandal Behind the World's Favorite Board Game. Big Beach, known for their penchant for movies with unusual characters, will have a lot to work with here: Pilon's book went into great detail on people within Parker Bros., the economist-turned-game designer they sued, as well as original designer of The Landlord's Game, created by Elizabeth Magie, who created it in 1904 and which served as inspiration for Monopoly.

Ironically, Magie's original game was intended as a teaching tool to provoke awareness of the unfairness of property ownership over tenants. Today, the property-grabbing game Monopoly is practically synonymous with board games for the general public. Between the original game and licensed products (see “USAopoly Licenses 'Yu-Gi-Oh!'”), it is widely regarded as the most popular commercial board game in the world.