….the (once) revered director of Alien, Blade Runner, and more than a dozen other films, has signed on to direct ‘Monopoly’ … you know, the board game.

No, it’s not from the The Onion.  The article also mentions a feature adaptation of “Ouija Board,” and the maritime classic “Battleship” is also in development.

Stranger than fiction..  Maybe next, Roman Polanski’s “Uno.” and Robert Zemeckis brings us a 200 million dollar Motion Capture / CGI version of “Chess”