J.P. Lavin and Chad Damiani, the duo behind How to Survive a Garden Gnome Attack at Robert Zemeckis’ ImageMovers and Sony Animation, are writing the script for Fruit Ninja, which will revolve around a team of misfits who are recruited to become Fruit Ninjas in order to save the world.

Vinson partnered with Halfbrick Studios and began developing the property as a live-action family comedy based on the best-selling game that revolves around ninjas who slice fruit at a rapid clip. Fruit Ninja is the second-highest-selling iOS game of all time, with over 1 billion downloads.

Sam White and Tara Farney are serving as executive producers. Alexis Ehrman will associate produce.

Lavin and Damiani, who penned the Black List script Kamikaze Love, are repped by Paradigm, Stephen Crawford at Industry Entertainment and Felker Toczek.