First Monopoly, then Catan, and now Netflix has announced a movie based on the Ticket to Ride board game

Will Forte, Bowen Yang, and Kristen Wiig in a sketch about board games — (Image credit: NBC)

Another day, another example of Netflix continuing to expand its roster of film and TV projects by walking into the board game aisle of a Target, pointing at a random box, and going: "That one."

Last April Netflix successfully bid for the rights to make a reality series based on board game Monopoly, and followed that up in October when it announced it was working on multiple "scripted and unscripted" projects based on the Settlers of Catan board game.

(Oh, also, if you're wondering why Will Forte, Bowen Yang, and Kristen Wiig are in the image up top—they haven't been announced as part of this movie. It's from a video I've included down below.)

Personally, I'd have preferred something like, oh, I dunno, a third season of Mindhunter—but hey, I'm not in charge of Netflix. (At least not yet.) I'm not sure what kind of film Ticket to Ride will make, but I did enjoy this TV adaptation of the game from a Saturday Night Live Sketch in 2024:

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Chris started playing PC games in the 1980s, started writing about them in the early 2000s, and (finally) started getting paid to write about them in the late 2000s. Following a few years as a regular freelancer, PC Gamer hired him in 2014, probably so he'd stop emailing them asking for more work. Chris has a love-hate relationship with survival games and an unhealthy fascination with the inner lives of NPCs. He's also a fan of offbeat simulation games, mods, and ignoring storylines in RPGs so he can make up his own.

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