Is Margot Robbie Learning the 'Wrong Lessons' From 'Barbie'?

After a summer where we all joked that Hollywood would react to 'Barbie' by going all-in on toy movies, Robbie's LuckyChap is prepping both The Sims and Monopoly

Beyond the material already known to be in development, like a Henry Cavill-starring Highlander relaunch and a theoretical Now You See Me 3, Lionsgate’s CinemaCon presentation “made news” with word that Margot Robbie’s LuckyChap Entertainment is co-producing (alongside Hasbro and Lionsgate) a movie based on the board game Monopoly. We’ve been hearing about Monopoly movies that hadn’t happened since at least 2007 when Ridley Scott allegedly expressed interest in a Scarlett Johannson-starring thriller set within the world of the real estate trading game. Whether Robbie is the one to get the “idea” over the finish line, as she frankly was with the long-in-development Barbie flick (previously involving Amy Schumer and then Anne Hathaway before Robbie made it a $1.4 billion-grossing reality), it’s her second game-specific flick in three weeks. On March 20, we learned that LuckyChap was prepping a movie based on The Sims. So… is Margot Robbie “learning the wrong lessons from Barbie?”