I got more involved as we went into production. Of course learning that nobody legally won the million-dollar prize for over a decade and over 50 people were arrested as part of the scam was crazy, but I was most surprised to discover the stories of Gloria Brown and George Chandler, who were forced or tricked into the scam and suffered tremendous anguish and financial hardship for years after getting caught up in it all.Īs a producer, what was your biggest input as the project went through development and production? What did you find as the most surprising thing you learned from producing this? And the moment I saw FBI Agent Doug Mathews on camera, I knew he was gold. Since just about everyone played the McDonald’s Monopoly Game, I knew viewers would be drawn to it. You have the Mafia, FBI, all of these unsuspecting people roped into the scam - it almost feels like a scripted series. The story for McMillions is wild and has so many twists and turns. What was it about this doc that drew you in? When I heard the pitch I was like, “Holy shit? The McDonald’s Monopoly Game was rigged?!” I knew right away it would make for a highly entertaining, comedic true crime story. Archie and Brian had worked successfully together on some docs in the past. My partner at 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. How did you first become involved with the series?
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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.
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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.