Netflix to Launch Life-Sized ‘Monopoly’ Reality Competition With $2 Million Prize
Netflix is adapting Monopoly into a life-sized reality competition series, where 12 contestants will compete for a $2 million prize.
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Netflix has announced Monopoly, a new reality competition series inspired by one of the world’s most recognisable board games, that will see 12 contestants compete in a life-sized version of the iconic property-trading game.
The series is being produced with Hasbro Entertainment, produced by Studio Lambert, the company behind Squid Game: The Challenge and The Circle, and will premiere in Autumn 2027.
The competition, set in a giant Monopoly Town Square, will pit contestants against each other to amass wealth, buy properties, broker deals, form alliances and outmanoeuvre rivals in pursuit of a $2 million grand prize.
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Game Format:
Netflix says all 12 players will start on equal footing, but fortunes will change throughout the competition as players build property empires while trying to avoid bankruptcy. The game continues until one player is left after the other players have gone bankrupt.
While the streaming platform has yet to reveal the full format of the competition, it has confirmed the competition will be played on a life-sized Monopoly game board designed to recreate the world of the classic board game.
Based on the basic game play of Monopoly, the show will feature contestants buying properties, earning money, making strategic deals and taking on challenges based on the familiar mechanics of the game.
Netflix has also opened casting for the series, with hopeful contestants invited to audition for a spot among the 12 players.
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The announcement is the latest in a series of unscripted shows based on existing intellectual property for Netflix. Following the success of Squid Game: The Challenge, the streamer is increasingly investing in large-scale reality formats and is also developing The Golden Ticket, based on Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
The series will be executive produced by Gabriel Marano and Zachary Edwin for Hasbro Entertainment, alongside Nia Yemoh, Tim Harcourt, Jack Burgess, Stephen Lambert and Kim Murphy from Studio Lambert.
