5:00 AM PDT, March 9, 2020From 1989 to 2001, one man managed to defraud McDonald’s out of $24 million in prize money by rigging the fast-food chain’s popular Monopoly promotional game. By stealing game pieces before they ever went out to the public, Uncle Jerry handpicked winners among family and friends to receive various prizes, including the coveted $1 million prize.
Nearly two decades later, the story is the subject of a six-part HBO documentary from directors James Lee Hernandez and Brian Lazarte.chronicles the fraud from beginning to end as they sit down with people on all sides of this unbelievably true story about greed, deception and revenge. After learning about the scam, Hernandez and Lazarte teamed up to figure out how to bring the story to the screen. “We started talking through what this could be. Is this, you know, a feature doc?” Lazarte tells ET. “We were also thinking that maybe there was a scripted possibility in this story early on. This was a year or so before the [
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