Comments on: WB Hopes to Acquire Space Invaders for Feature Film

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 03:33:22 +0000

Why don’t they just try to make that Halo movie instead? A Half-Life movie is still begging to be made.

Heck, why hasn’t anyone made a “Mech Assault/Mech Warrior” movie yet? Since giant robots are currently all the rage, why not?

By: matty

matty — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 23:56:24 +0000

In reply to Rodney. Hahaha love it

By: j's revenge

j's revenge — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:30:48 +0000

they could tie the storyline in with zoolander 2 and have ben stiller in outer space but he cant slide to the left and always gets hit by the aliens on his left
GENIUS

By: kc

kc — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:29:11 +0000

The only way I could see this working is if they took a starfighter bent… the game is actually a recruiting machine for new starfighters… but that has already been done.

By: James

James — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:29:09 +0000

I thought that Universal had the rights for this…

By: 420BAND

420BAND — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:44:38 +0000

Pong!: screenplay: that shit will just write itself!

By: 420BAND

420BAND — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:43:35 +0000

Pong! when are they going to do Pong?!

By: Darren J Seeley

Darren J Seeley — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:48:24 +0000

I can see the possibilities of a movie where: * One ship firing away at space rocks. * One ship firing away at waves of invading space ships, while also seeing our green bunkers take damage. Ooh the excitement!!!!! What? No Q*Bert movie? Little orange hairy dude with no arms, big feet and a snout jumping all over a color pyramid from outer space?! Come on, folks! And how about Frogger? Yeah---! Loads of suspense in that one, where we watch Frog jump out of the way of trucks while crossing the street and landing on lily pads in the swamp. Awhile ago, once upon a blue moon, I was sold on the likes of Joust (the best potential) but that's really about it. I think it is the right idea to find games which can be the basis for a story and/or to pump up a mythology. But not those that limit themselves, like Asteroids. They make nice strategy games, so did BattleZone back in the day. I could see maybe a Berzerk or a Centipede but stuff like that is also iffy for a big screen. I would much rather leave videogames to videogames. Leave them out from movies. Now, how about a nice game of Pong?

By: Rodney

Rodney — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:34:36 +0000

In reply to matty.

Yes, the Futurama episode that pays tribute to space invaders is the best.

“Sir, we are getting killed out here”
“New Strategy! Drop down a bit, change speed and change direction!!”

By: matty

matty — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 08:44:48 +0000

The big boss at the end will be the last Space Invader left that moves really really fast.

BTW: pretty sure “Futurama” already used this idea