FRUIT NINJA Is Getting a Feature Film Adaptation
A couple of weeks ago I posted a short film based on the hit mobile game Fruit Ninja. It made for a fun and silly short, but I never imagined that Fruit Ninja could ever be a feature film. Well, Hollywood has proved me wrong once again. I guess if Angry Birds can be a successful film, any mobile game can.
Fruit Ninja will be developed as a live-action family comedy that centers on ninjas with an inexplicable vendetta against fruit. It sounds absolutely absurd, but who knows, maybe something funny will come out of it. If The LEGO Movie directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller were attached to it, I could see it being good.
As of right now, Tripp Vinson is set to produce the movie under his Vinson Films production banner, and he’s hired J.P. Lavin and Chad Damiani to write the script. They recently adapted the script for a film called How to Survive a Garden Gnome Attack, which is based on the book by Chuck Sambuchino. It will be another wildly out there film concept.
The Fruit Ninja game was developed by Halfbrick Studios, and so far it has over 1 billion downloads. I can only imagine that the film will be in 3D and have all kinds of fruit fly out at the audience as Ninjas slice and dice them.
Source: THR