• Netflix expands into board game adaptations, acquiring rights to Asmodee’s Ticket to Ride. • First on-screen adaptation will be a feature film by Ben Mekler and Chris Amick. • Alan R. Moon, original creator, serves as executive producer for the project. • Netflix also holds rights to Catan and plans to adapt Monopoly into a TV game show. • Ticket to Ride, a 20‑year‑old train‑strategy game, has sold 20+ million copies worldwide. • Netflix’s strategy signals a broader push into diverse entertainment formats beyond streaming.
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- Netflix is adapting the board game Ticket to Ride A feature film based on Alan R. Moon’s hugely successful tabletop game is currently in development. Netflix has been in the game adaptation business for a while now, but until recently most of its attention had been on adapting video games. That’s still very much happening, but the streaming giant is also now buying up rights for board game IP too, with the latest being Asmodee’s Ticket to Ride. Netflix will look to greenlight a number of projects spanning TV, film and “additional formats,” it wrote in a press release. The first of these will b
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