Update: Radar Pictures says there is no truth to the reports that “Mafia Wars” is headed to the big screen, adding that the only gangster related project on their slate is an adaptation of Joseph Salerno and Stephen J. Rivele’s 1990 nonfiction book, “The Plumber: The True Story of How One Good Man Helped Destroy the Entire Philadelphia Mafia.”
Console video games, board games, toys….it was probably only a matter of time before Facebook games made the leap to the big screen. Pajiba reports that “Mafia Wars” is headed for adaptation, and with 12 million players on Facebook, more on the iPhone and the 2009 Webby Award for People’s Voice we can see why someone would want to tap into that market.
We’ve never played the game, but you basically build up your own crime empire, recruiting fellow players and completing tasks to rise up through the ranks of the game and gain credibility and street rep with a bunch of online strangers around the world. Whatever, it will be probably just be turned into your standard, generic gangster movie. Ted Field and Radar Pictures (“Swing Vote,” “All About Steve,” “The Box”) have sent the film out to writers who will probably create some bullshit “mythology” for the film.
We’re just glad it’s not “Farmville: The Movie”…