I hesitate to call this a movie adaptation of a video game, as Mafia Wars is hardly a traditional video game. But it seems that the popular Zynga application game for Facebook will be made into a feature film.
According to Pajiba, we are about to get our first Facebook/iPhone application turned into a movie in the form of Zynga’s MAFIA WARS.
So if you don’t have Facebook, you won’t really know what the buzz is about this. But I guarantee you that if you DO have a facebook, unless your only friend is your Grandma (and that may or may not result in a lack of this application) then you will know at least that a game app exists by this name.
In Mafia Wars you go on “missions” to earn levels and build your own personal mafia. Its not a traditional video game as there is no interaction outside of selecting a mission and seeing if your ability scores result in a successful attempt. But its very popular, so they are making a movie out of it.
More accurately, they likely had some original script laying around that deals with conflicting Mafia organizations and didn’t know how to market this original story. So they attached the script to the popularity of this plot free Facebook app so they can market the crap out of it.
And people say there are no original ideas left in Hollywood!
I wonder how long before we see a Farmville movie.
