Warner Brothers in Talks for Space Invaders Movie
Asteroids, Missile Command, and now… Space Invaders? Next thing you know, that long-rumoured Pac-Man movie is going to be coming out of the woodwork too. The L.A. Times reports that Warner Brothers is in negotiations to pick up the big screen rights to the classic arcade game Space Invaders from Japanese company Taito. Mark Gordon (Speed, Saving Private Ryan, The Day After Tomorrow) would produce, along with Jason Blum (Paranormal Activity) and Guymon Casady (The Killing Room).
Clearly the WB is only interested in the license because their competition has already optioned some classic arcade games (Asteroids is at Universal, and Missile Command is at Fox), however, out of all these I think Space Invaders is the property that makes the most sense as a movie. I mean, the only connection to the game would be the title, but at least it could simply be slapped on a generic alien invasion film. Considering Mark Gordon’s association with Roland Emmerich, he would probably be a great guy to direct it. Space Invaders: The Movie? Sure, why not.
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This movie would have probably had big buzz in 1978, even Star Wars is having trouble staying on the public’s radar 5 years after the last film. Whatever happened to the Crazy Taxi movie?
Maybe Space Invader’s new owners Square/Enix are trying to make up the losses from their Final Fantasy CGI movie failure that had a much bigger fanbase to tap into than Space Invaders ever will.
I’m guessing most of the public wouldn’t even know the movie was based on a video game like most of the public doesn’t know Pirates of the Caribbean is a Disney theme park ride.
Posted by Duke Togo on March 4th, 2010When I read the headline I thought this was a Spaced Invaders reboot, which obviously would be better than this.
Posted by rjdelight on March 4th, 2010Haha very true. That should have been a trilogy.
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