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SPACE INVADERS May Soon March Back & Forth (And Back & Forth) Across Movie Screens!!
Merrick here...
Warners is looking to set-up a SPACE INVADERS movie under producer Mark Gordon (SPEED, SAVING PRIVATE RYAN, 2012 & TV's ARMY WIVES and GREY'S ANATOMY).
Warner Bros. is negotiating to acquire feature rights to the landmark shooter from Taito, the Japanese company that originally manufactured the game. If the rights issues all work out, the project would bring on Hollywood fixtures Mark Gordon, Jason Blum and Guymon Casady as producers.
...says L.A. Times HERE.
I've owned nearly every home iteration of this game (Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Super Nintendo, N64, XBOX 360, etc.) and played the arcade version incessantly. So, a part of me is nostalgically, illogically dying to see what they come up with here. I hope there's a graphical frame around the movie screen that makes the screen look like the portal of the old arcade game, and I think it would be super-cool to see columns of advancing aliens march back and forth...endlessly...in Digital 3-D...as a cannon shoots up at 'em from the bottom of the screen...while the audience leans left —> right —> left —> right shouting "That one!" and "There! There!" and "Hurry!"'' You know you can imagine that...
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But as a movie....WHY?!?!?!?!
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tumbleweeds around here
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Seriously, talking about a movie that will deserve the "In Name Only" tag.
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Give me my R-Type movie. I demand a horizontal style!
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There was a music video with a strong Space Invaders theme. I mean, visually speaking. This video should have been linked to in the article, it's so appropriate.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmcPeuf5aXo
Just because I know about it, here is a Space Invaders pinball machine. I think Bally got in trouble for the too-ALIEN backglass art.
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cheers mate.
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until about a couple of years ago...never have seen the video.Personally I prefer the "Uncle Vic" song of Space Invaders
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...turns this into some meta-narrative parodying the ridiculous notion of turning an outdated game and premise into a big-budget movie, why bother?
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but we should have known.. Hollywood has no sense of shame. They will rape any corpse.
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Worst idea since the Battleship movie. Both of these movies will not resemble what they are "based on". Name recognition has never saved anything from being a steaming pile. But Transformers 2 made a ton of money so studios know people will go see them.
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I, too, prefer that song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmbI71d59a8 has it. -
My favorite Space Invaders iteration was Super Space Invaders of the Sega Game Gear.
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Why isn't Resident Evil 4 being filmed as the game instead of another unwanted Mia Jovovich sequel?
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This idea works better as a 7 minute ride at Universal Studios.
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would be to just play the game on the big screen in front of an audience for 70 or 80 minutes or so. Anything else would probably be just garbage.
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Quaaarrterrrs!
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... Germs? ... water? ... grass?...
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Quality film making.
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Their literal take on it was hilarious. No more ever needs to be done.
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...and should be posting it soon.Eeesh. Guys. Do you really need a review to be informed that it is worse than Old Boys?
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It's a sure bet that at least 50% of visitors to this site write their own movies and say 50% of them will have decent, original ideas, eager for a break...Yet Hollywood is scraping the bottom of the barrel for anything to fling money at. Bunch of unoriginal, umimaginative, cowardly tossmonkeys.
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Knights jousting on the backs of ostriches and emus on a molten world.
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Shasta and my all-Rush mix tape. Let's rock."
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Here's one blurb about it:
http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2007/08/plans-in-motion/
But maybe some plans went awry. imdb appears to be no help with this since it says it's due out this year but has no other information, so its info is surely long outdated. -
...used to play it in arcades I guess in the early nineties, it was like a game show ala The Running Man movie, you're running around literally killing thousands of attackers with flamethrowers and machineguns for like $200,000 in toasterovens and stuff....make a gore movie about that, then. These video game movies stink.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smash_TV
and it had at least one allusion to Robocop. "I'd buy *that* for a dollar!" -- at least, I think. -
that would be Smash TV and i'm sure its on its way eventually. lol
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...to any recognizable franchise...that's how you make movies right?
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Good thought, though! {g}
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let's adapt everything!
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Speaking of which, where's my blu-ray dammit.
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Who am I to say you can't make a cool movie out of Space Invaders? You could have ANY sort of alien invasion film and slap the Space Invaders label on it because let's face it, the videogame has no fucking story! So, you CAN'T fuck it up!So go ahead and make a Galaga movie, a Defender movie, and Asteroids movie. For all I know they could fucking rule!
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A short film - "Against the Wall." It will be about 7-8 minutes. A science fiction piece. We're going for a Gattaca/Minority Report look and a Twilight Zone feel (cerebral, quiet). We hope to finish this summer. We shot on greenscreen, but the CG is taking a long time to get done. Was hoping to get it into Comic-Con, but that ain't gonna happen because we've had a lot of delays. Hopefully we can get it into some festivals. I'll keep you guys posted on how things go.
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Thats like... a babies toy!
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Space Invaders could work as funny little b sci-fi flick.
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I thought this was just an early arcade game. I had no idea it was based on a show let alone had a story line?
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WARNER BROTHERS PRESENTS... SPACE INVADERS. STARRING MICKEY ROURKE AS "LASER CANNON", A DOWN ON HIS LUCK MIDDLE-AGED SPRITE LOOKING TO MAKE A QUICK BUCK ON XBOX LIVE. ALSO STARRING MEAT LOAF AS ALIEN # 2 AND KRISTANNA LOKEN AS THE MYSTERIOUSLY SEXY "MYSTERY SHIP". AND FEATURING JOSEPH GORDON LEVITT AS "SQUEEKY LEFT JOYSTICK". SUMMER 2013.
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with Matthew Broderick as Papadous Papalapmopadous racing in a Jeep from small town to small town repelling an incoming nuclear attack.
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My favorite arcade game ever.
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I will give up my first born child to any Hollywood hack who can come up with an original idea...
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Just as soon as I stop wacking off to Bayonetta.
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Sounds like a success. Someone give the suit a bag of money.
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trilogy
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They're now raping the most boring and peripherally shallow parts of my childhood.
Do a special edition ( w/ update CGI but same film ) of Last Starfighter for Crying out loud, if you have to make a space video game movie
Or...
If you must make a video game movie from a video game of alien ships that just stand there, at least make a Galaga movie! -
"Intruder alert, intruder alert!"
"Chicken, Fight like a Robot!"
I'll bet there's someone else out there othe rthan me with enough geek prowess that had the Pac Mac Fever soundtrack and knows the Beserk song. Come on! :) -
This is beyond parody, one of those do I laugh or do I cry moments? If they want to make a movie of a game why not Strip Poker? That would make a much more interesting movie. Maybe Bill Murray can star in it (Space Invaders, not Strip Poker -- we really don't want to go there). And be killed horribly right at the start. I might pay to see that.
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Or Galaga? Or Tempest? Or... or... Centipede? lol Space Invaders...really!? It could only be a Space Invaders movie in name alone, because the game wasn't ABOUT shit.
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for the love of god someone report on an actual good idea for a movie.
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youze slipin bra.
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that Asteroids movie AICN reported on last year?
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Where everybody gets hit by watermelons! And the lead is bald with a mullet and a Tom Selleck mustache! It could be all zany like. I'd get Michael Chiklis to play Galaga.
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It's just a 5 minute short, but it's extremely faithful to the game: http://tinyurl.com/yayb5mb
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... no movie of this needed.
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Space invaders extreme 1 and 2 on the DS were amazing games. Highly recomended. I think the DS versions were better than the 360 version to whoever posted about it above. As for the movie I think that as long as they make all overboard and extreme, you know what I meant just full on crazy music and effects and story I'm watching it. Make it a "what the fu** am I watching?" kind of movie. A no holes barred full on woah! of a movie. Thats my hope for this movie I suppose.
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is harry removing the review section of this site?
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"Prepare to die, Earth scum!"
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"Arrows or not, somebody's gotta fuck that squaw, and I'm just the man to do it!"
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...as a kid in a department store in a mall taht probably no longer exists in Springfield, MA. Also remember buying a sealed plastic bag with three random Marvel comics in it at the same time. Must have been about 1980 or so. Departments stores used to have everything back then, didn't they?
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Dig Doug! I want to see giant mutant gophers exploded by jets of water.
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Someone needs to make Oregan Trail movie. How about Marble Madness The Movie?
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Now THAT would be trippy.
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of that game Tron.
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I hope it's Shia LaBeouf. Maybe there will be three lives, and there can be a different actor for each life. Kind of like Dr Parnassus.
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About the year 1978. A sort of ensemble tapestry movie set against the backdrop of Taito creating the game, and the way its genesis weaves through everyone's lives. Like "Bobby", but even more dull.
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Ah... I meant "Asteroids". Sorry.
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...is awesome. It's funny how its got the "Transitioning from the late 70's into the 80's" sound. Most of the lyrical hooks carry a more 70's vibe, while the music itself is clearly leaning towards the 80's synth soaked keytar glorification. The falsetto in the chorus MAKES the song, though.
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"...you should have shot at where I was *going* to be!"
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Not fair! I was just gonna say that!...And yes, Futurama covered all there is to cover about vintage arcade games. Masterfully.
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This is just pathetic....
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