{"id":14600,"date":"2011-10-10T15:42:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T13:42:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"possible-farmville-movie-facepalm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/14600-possible-farmville-movie-facepalm","title":{"rendered":"Possible Farmville movie? *Facepalm*"},"content":{"rendered":"

In what might be the worst news in the history of forever, it turns out there might be a film adaptation of Farmville. <\/p>\n

And here we thought a movie of the Sims was just about the most horrifying prospect ever – well, scary just got a whole lot scarier.<\/p>\n

Toy Story writers Alec Sokolow and Joel Cohen dropped the bomb in a recent interview with IGN<\/a>, saying, “So, yes, we will continue writing movies. We are also working on several new and very exciting opportunities. We’re in conversations with Zynga to do something with one of their brands. Can’t really say too much on that front yet, but ‘Old MacDonald’ didn’t have a factory, if you get our drift.”<\/p>\n

I don’t even want to imagine what this would be like, but I just did anyway.<\/p>\n

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After a Facebook status update about her recent corn harvest turns up on John’s news feed, Jane’s life is turned upside-down when her former high school science teacher’s assistant sends her a packet of apple seeds. THIS SUMMER, YOU WILL REAP WHAT YOU SOW. <\/p>\n

Zynga has apparently refused comment on the subject, which is usually industry code for “yes, it’s true”.<\/p>\n

Gods preserve us.<\/p>\n

Farmville movie possibly in the works – <\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/a>What the hell are they thinking?<\/strong><\/a> << Comments and views<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

THIS SUMMER, A STORY OF LOVE, BETRAYAL, AND COWS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}