We’ve been a little befuddled about Hollywood’s recent surge in boardgame adaptations, but now plot details are emerging that give us a better idea of just how movies based on Monopoly, Candy Land, and Ouija Board might shape up in celluloid form.

The most high-profile of these is perhaps Monopoly, not only because of the game’s enduring popularity, but because of legendary director Ridley Scott’s involvement with the project. Executive producer and Hasbro CEO Brian Goldner recently spoke with MTV Movies Blog and mentioned that the film will follow “real people kind of playing a real-life game of ‘Monopoly,’ not the board game, although they’re icons of the game. And then you really get the idea why this story could make sense right now.” It seems Goldner and Scott are using the public’s reinvigorated interest in the economy due to recent market meltdowns to craft what could potentially be a dark and creepy take on the property, with characters actually exercising the type of financial imperialism we only pretend at in the game. Interesting.

Meanwhile, in the same interview, Goldner gives us the following update on Enchanted director Kevin Lima’s big screen adaptation of Candy Land: “Imagine if you took that basic idea of going to a better place, and then allowed the audience to go to that same place together. But then you come to find out, like every other place that’s promised to just be all better and all sweets and candy, you come to find out there’s actually some controversy there as well, that of course the stars of the movie have to solve for.” Goldner goes on to say that the movie will be “very human and very natural,” which seems utterly out-of-place in a movie about Candy Land (as in, you know, a LAND of frickin’ CANDY). Lima’s proved he’s got some magic in him, however, so I remain eager to see where he goes with this.

And finally, Goldner also talks a little about the Ouija Board movie, which he promises will have horror aspects reminiscent of The Ring and The Gift. He had this to say on where the story could go: “In Ouija you ask questions and then you get these answers. And sometimes these answers are unintended answers. So be careful what you ask, that’s the element of the game that I think is so fun. You sort of use that insight about really playing Ouija as the jumping off point for a story for a movie, and then you link it to something much bigger.” Not exactly a revelation, but at least now we know to expect something decidedly un-PG.

Tags: Boardgames, Brian Goldner, Candy Land, Kevin Lima, Monopoly, Ouija Board, Ridley Scott