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The Fruit Ninja game is going to be a movie

The Fruit Ninja game is going to be a movie

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Fruit Ninja

After Angry Birds earned more than $300 million at the box office, it was only a matter of time before other studios decided to jump on the bandwagon to adapt mobile phone games. The next one? Fruit Ninja.

New Line Cinemas has snapped up the rights to turn the mobile game — which lets its users slice fruit in half with a swipe of the finger — into a film. J.P. Lavin and Chad Damiani will write the script, which The Hollywood Reporter says will "revolve around a team of misfits who are recruited to become Fruit Ninjas in order to save the world."

Expect plenty of fruit juice merchandising tie-ins when this eventually hits theaters.