HBO's doc series about the rigging of the McDonald's Monopoly game, helmed by James Lee Hernandez and Brian Lazarte, was so fascinating to Mark Wahlberg that he signed on as an executive producer.
The series, which premiered on Feb. 3 on HBO, reveals the FBI's investigation into the McDonald's Monopoly game scam, which resulted in more than $24 million worth of fraud and almost all rigged winners during the 1990s.
How did you first become involved with the series? My partner at [Wahlberg’s production company] Unrealistic Ideas, Archie Gips, told me and Stephen Levinson about the project when it was brought into our company by James Lee Hernandez and Brian Lazarte.
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