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Seriously, what's going on here? Buying the Heavy Rain movie rights I understand. The Prince of Persia movie could actually be good. But Space Invaders? Why? Just why? A completely plotless video game with enemy designs that flat-out won't work on screen doesn't seem like a natural fit for a movie adaptation, but apparently it's happening. Here's a snippet of the Variety article that broke the news:

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.

I suppose if Warner Bros. took the name and grafted it onto a generic alien invasion script no one would get too upset. After all, there aren't exactly a ton of Space Invaders purists out there. But seriously, I can't think of any outcome in which a Space Invaders movie is anything other than completely unnecessary.

The Space Invaders gif above can be found here.