Space Invaders: The Movie is going to happen

Warner Bros. studios has reportedly commissioned writer Dan Kunka to create a screenplay based on the classic video game Space Invaders.

If you’ve recently been to an arcade or at least gone on a classic video gaming binge, you might have stumbled across Space Invaders and thought, “Man, this would make a great movie.” No? Well, maybe not, but that didn’t stop Warner Bros. from snapping up the rights to the game with their eyes on adapting the Atari classic to the big screen.

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Deadline reports that “Warner Bros has set Black List writer Dan Kunka to script a live-action film from the video game Space Invaders.”

So for those of you who have faced the wall of aliens steadily charging downward and thought the ensuing drama would make for great cinema, you finally have a supporter. You and the person making decisions at Warner Bros. studios can now bond over your weird affinity for seeing Atari games adapted to film.

In truth, this is a brilliant pick-up for a major movie studio, whose primary purpose is to churn and burn content for easy money. You can pretty much do whatever you want with the words Space Invaders without ardent fans decrying your work for not being faithful to the source material.

In effect, Warner Bros. has received free rein to just make an alien movie and do whatever they want with it. This may seem like sheer idiocy, but come summer time when that first trailer is released, you’re going to be happy someone decided to make an alien movie largely based on nothing at all.

Kunka is the writer for Black List among other projects and is known for “finding movies out of high concept”. And what higher concept could a writer convert to cinema than an endless wall of spider-legged aliens descending one pixel at a time?

There is no release date set for the movie as it remains in a conceptual stage, but Deadline notes, “Joby Harold and Tory Tunnell’s Safehouse Pictures are producing and Matt Schwartz overseeing for the company.”

We’ll all just have to content ourselves with some other fine cinema while we wait to see what gem Warner Bros. unfurls here.

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