The McDonald's Monopoly scam was born to be a movie
Recently, when we reported that Ben Affleck and Fox had picked up the rights to the McDonald’s Monopoly scam story that Jeff Maysh wrote about for The Daily Beast, we noted that it must’ve involved a “really fast and really intense bidding war” since Affleck and Fox had snatched up the rights just a few days after the piece was published. According to Vulture, the “all-out bidding war” was actually even more dramatic than we assumed, with Warner Bros. trying to buy the rights for a movie with Steve Carell, Netflix trying to buy the rights for Robert Downey Jr. and Todd Phillips, Universal jumping in on behalf of Kevin Hart, and Martin Scorsese making a late bid in hopes of putting together a starring vehicle for Leonardo DiCaprio. Vulture even says that Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg, and Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment had all made plays of their own.