Highlights
- Netflix has confirmed its Monopoly reality competition series will premiere in Fall 2027.
- The show will focus on strategy, property acquisition, deal-making, and financial decision-making.
- The reality show expands Netflix’s growing lineup of game and tabletop adaptations.
Netflix is expanding its game-based content library with a reality competition show inspired by Hasbro’s Monopoly board game. The series will premiere in Fall 2027 with an award of $2 million USD grand prize to its winner.
12 contestants will compete inside a life-size Monopoly Town Square, where they will buy properties, negotiate deals, and try to avoid bankruptcy and going to jail, according to the streamer. Casting is open now through a dedicated application portal.
The Netflix Monopoly show comes after a competitive bidding process, which took place in early 2025. The streamer finally announced the show as a “large-scale social-experiment contest” in April 2025.
What Can Contestants Expect From Netflix’s Real-Life Monopoly Game?
According to Netflix, contestants will compete inside the life-sized Monopoly Town Square, recreating the board game’s familiar settings and properties. The game will start with all 12 players on equal footing.
From there, they must earn money, acquire properties, and negotiate trades to build an empire, while taking calculated risks and avoiding elimination. Bankrupt players will be eliminated one by one from the show, leaving a single winner to take it all.
Rather than relying solely on luck, the competition emphasizes social strategy and financial decision-making, mirroring the mechanics that have made Monopoly one of the world’s best-known board games.
Hasbro and Studio Lambert Lead Netflix’s Monopoly Reality Show Production
The Monopoly reality competition is produced by Studio Lambert, the company behind Squid Game: The Challenge and The Circle, in partnership with Hasbro Entertainment. Studio Lambert secured the project after reportedly competing against dozens of production companies seeking the adaptation rights.
Zachary Edwin and Gabriel Marano are producing the series from Hasbro. Kim Murphy, Tim Harcourt, Stephen Lambert, Jack Burgess, and Nia Yemoh, are also joining the series as producers from Studio Lambert.
Netflix has not disclosed the rest of the production staff, episode count, prize pool breakdown, filming location, or exact premiere date for the Monopoly reality show. “A get-out-of-jail-free card is not included with the $2 million prize pot,” the streamer humorously added in the announcement.
The prize sits below the $4.56M payout offered on Squid Game: The Challenge, another Netflix competition series that drew 20.1M views in its debut week. That show remains one of the streamer’s most-watched unscripted titles, a benchmark Monopoly reality show will likely be measured against.
Netflix’s Monopoly series is not the only live-action based on the property that is currently in development. Hasbro Entertainment is separately developing a Monopoly film with LuckyChap and Lionsgate.
For Netflix, the project strengthens a growing pipeline of adaptations built around gaming and tabletop properties. Netflix is also developing live-action adaptations for two other Hasbro properties, a Dungeons & Dragons-inspired series, The Forgotten Realms, and a Magic: The Gathering animated series. Nonetheless, whether a life-size Monopoly contest can match the scale of the 90-year-old board game will depend on execution details, format, and filming logistics, which Netflix has yet to reveal.
