While gamers are well aware of the checkered history of “real” videogames being turned into feature films, we may be on the threshold of a dangerous new horizon—turning social games into movies.
[URL=http://www.pajiba.com/trade_news/exclusive-facebook-game-mafia-wars-being-developed-into-a-feature-film.php]Pajiba has the scoop[/URL] that [URL=http://www.zynga.com/]Zynga[/URL]’s Facebook game Mafia Wars will be getting the big screen treatment thanks to a feature development deal with Ted Field and Radar Pictures. Mafia Wars boasts over 25 million users and the game’s storyline opens up in New York City, before adding the locales Cuba, Moscow and Bangkok. Additional missions can include Paris, London and Las Vegas, so at the very least, the movie could have an international flair to it.
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