Back when it was announced that Sony Pictures Animation would be bringing a big-screen adaptation of the Angry Birds mobile game to theaters, the decision left a lot of people scratching their heads. Now that The Angry Birds Movie has tallied up a hefty global box office sum of nearly $350 million however, that decision is proving out. So now that the animation studio is dipping into mobile game territory once again with plans for a Fruit Ninja adaptation, the tendency to laugh and shake our heads is still strong, but we could be the ones with cantaloupe on our faces in a few years' time.
As THR reports, Sony Pictures Animation's J.P. Lavin and Chad Damiani, (How to Survive a Garden Gnome Attack) are writing the script with Tripp Vinson producing. The major news is that New Line "has landed the film rights to the addictive mobile game app that has become a staple on phones and tablets." That deal reunites Vinson and New Line, a partnership which has found success on the Journey to the Center of the Earth films and the natural disaster/action hit San Andreas.
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