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Oh god, they're probably making a Farmville movie

by Griffin McElroy on Oct 8th 2011 3:00AM

Never before have our hearts received news with such confusion: In a recent interview with IGN, Toy Story writers Alec Sokolow and Joel Cohen hinted at their next project: A movie adaptation of Zynga's Farmville franchise. "We're in conversations with Zynga to do something with one of their brands," they teased. "Can't really say too much on that front yet, but 'Old MacDonald' didn't have a factory, if you get our drift." We do not get your drift. Your drift makes us sad.

We trust the two to craft a compelling story, but we worry there's not enough rich source material for them to base it on. All we know is we're not looking forward to receiving a hundred daily invitations to go to the movie from our distant, distant cousins and fourth grade math teachers.

Source: IGN

Tags: adaptation, farmville, film, movie, pc, social-gaming, toy-story, zynga

Reader Comments (45)

Let me guess, they hired Uwe Boll to direct?

@Faceless Troll

YES. This is a great idea. Farmville players will have to watch it but it will be shit and excruciating to watch! EXCELLENT

@Osmium

You'll only get to watch the movie in tiny segments recurring every 6-7 hours. But if you miss any segment of 5 minutes then it sets you back a scene with micropayments (totaling up to $30 or more) if you want to experience the movie more quickly.

@Faceless Troll
If there is any justice in the world...

Oh god, please no.

@Johnny C Bad
http://m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri=%2F&gl=US#/watch?v=31g0YE61PLQ

@Johnny C Bad
Please YES. Anything to kill FarmVille.

this is a whole new level of stupid. and by the writers of toy story? Wow.

They're willing to green light this garbage but not a Halo movie?
FFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUU!

@daytripper

The easier to make, the more willing they will be.

When making any video game movie, the original creators want to be as true to the game it can be. Unfortunately directors tend to not want to follow directly from the original source & that's where the problem lies & that's why it's hard to find a director will give up a little of his creativity. And the funding could be apart of it also

So it's basically a never ending loop

http://nooooooooooooooo.com/

What is this blasphemy!?

So they rip off harvest moon, make bank off of it, and then make a kids movie? Who are these monsters?

The pitch for this movie would have been extremely entertaining to hear.

Zynga: "So like, there's a micro-transaction game about farming. Imagine all that excitement on the silver screen!"

Producer: "That sounds horrible. Hell no"

Zynga: " We've made over half a billion dollars with this game."

Producer: "Where do I sign?"

This is probably the ONLY game movie that I would want Uwe Boll to direct.

I wish upon a star......

Wait....it's not April 1st yet?

Isn't this announcement a little early/late?

@TheRepublic

And your avatar brings up a pretty valid point.... *any* of the Harvest Moon games or spin offs, would even make a better movie than this BS.

i'd rather see Pixar make a LittleBigPlanet film.

@bedroompop

Hell yeah! I'd watch that.

@bedroompop
This, this, this this times 100!
Someone call Pixar right now!

This is the WRITERS of Toy Story. Pretty sure no one watched it for the story...

@mietha

The movie wasn't just called Toy.

Ah, game to movie transition, these always turn out good....

Meanwhile, Shadow of the Colossus, Phoenix Wright, Duke Nukem, Team Fortress 2, Monkey Island, No More Heroes, Infamous, Pikmin, Katamari, Tetris, Mario Golf, Sneak King, Superman 64, ET the video game, and EVERY OTHER GAME IN THE WORLD THAT ISN'T FARMVILLE still don't have their own movie adaptions. Something's wrong there.

@SushiGummy

Something is wrong about wanting a Superman 64 movie. The game shouldn't exist, let's not remind everyone of the fact that it does.

@SushiGummy

I just Googled "Sneak King", having never heard of it before in my life. Thank you, fine sir. You made my day.

@SushiGummy Phoenix Wright will have a movie adaptation.
Albeit a Japanese one.

@SushiGummy I suppose a Tetris movie about blocks falling would be better than the shit hollywood churns out anyway.

@joko450

There was a Tetris movie. It was fan made and posted to You Tube. Even though I haven't watched it I'm quite sure it's better than the Farmville movie will be.

@SushiGummy

i would go to see et the game the movie day one

and maybe it is popular enough can spawn et the game the movie the game

I give up...this world is f*cked.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35TbGjt-weA

Wanted to lol but it's early and I don't want wake my gf up but that was funny lol

Its official humanity is lost now...

F*ck you all i'm going to Mars

I can't believe it's the writers of TOY STORY, one of my all-time favourite movies, behind this... abomination. How the hell can you make a movie based on a crappy Facebook game that people obssess over because they're sad and pathetic?

Maybe it'll be like Barnyard. As cheesy as that was, it was okay. But I'm sure they've already done plenty of animal movies. Unless they're going to set the movie on a farm and suddenly reveal Leatherface. Now THAT would be an awesome children's film.

Dear God no ......

Surely this must be a sign of the apocalypse.

Well, movies and video games have had a good run, right? Come on, shut it all down.

Why make Halo, Bioshock or Assassins Creed when you can make a Farmville movie?

reading the headline literally made me sigh in disgust

I think this image is relevant:

http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110116114037/uncyclopedia/images/8/85/Facepalm_compilation.gif

Documentary on how people waste their lives?

@The 7th Number
How about a documentary on just how calculating, cynical and manipulative the creators of "social games" are? That might actually make a difference.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weltschmerz

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Posted: Oct 8th 2011 3:03AM Faceless Troll said

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