Was it just too much hassle for them to get the license to Independence Day 3?

That sounds like it will be totally inappropriate. Also this doesnt necessarily mean it will be green lit by the way, or even if that that the production will go anywhere. Like how is that Asteroids movie going?

You know what holmes? I will be happy if the producers and Directer actually played space invaders at one time. just once, that is all i want.

"Asteroids" has already been made into a movie, by Michael Bay. He renamed it "Armageddon."

Space Invaders is the name for what was supposed to be, "Mars Attacks 2"

I'll be honest. I'm looking forward to this, how could it be screwed up? As long as it's about humans fighting of aliens it works... Oh wait, Transformers producers? Ugh... So it'll be 80% Human Comedy-drama then...

Name it: "Invaders! (Possibly from Space)"

This could work. What you would do is cast Willem Dafoe and Tom Berringer as rival Space Invader champions who after years of debate over who is better, decide to settle the score at Cape Canaveral, Florida. Just as they begin to do battle, an actual alien invasion takes place. The two rivals recognize the pattern of the alien attack as being quite similar to the game and convince a wiley Air Force General (played by Gary Busey), to build a series of floating concrete bunkers and run a laser gun back and forth underneath shooting the alien armada down.

After countless waves of enemies are brought down, the two realize that they may never win the battle. Just when that happens Ralph Macchio intervenes claiming that a Game Genie code will defeat the aliens once and for all. They employ this strategy and defeat the aliens.

Get Michael Bay to direct for explosions and shit. One of them gets to fuck Renee Russo.

Ugh, great. I don't see why someone would even bother doing this, it they make it realistic then what will be the difference between it and other alien invasion movies? The designs of alien space ships? The fact that one pilot takes out the entire fleet? So much will be changed to the point that it doesn't matter.

Invaders Must Die - meaning name the movie this, or cancel it. "Invaders Must Die" is just a really badass title for anything is all. Though the movie will probably still not be great.

Oh damnit like ruining the transformers wasn't enough, burn Hollywood burn...

i'm still waiting for the pacman, and tetris movies.

@Murdoc

More or less a Futurama plotline.

This is never happening.

"Watch as i shoot up through our own shield!"
"He's a madman, a madman!"

I heard the next movie they were going to make was "Pong: The Musical"

@Ace Fibble

ID3? What about number 2? Unless it already exists and I completely missed it.

Hey they made rock em sock.... Oh, someone beat me to it. I was laughing so hard at that in the theater. People got pissed. I laughed harder

That's pretty much what I had to say about it.

I could see this being totally awesome, in a "Hollywood fucks up everything" kind of way.
Picture the scene where the hero saves the girl from her alien prison and escapes on a starfighter capable of immense destruction. Faced with literal walls of enemy craft, he deftly shoots them down while avoiding their shots, the "PEW" of their space lazers echoing through the battlefield.

Also I totally wanna see that Darwin quote from Infinity Gene work its way in, and in the end of the movie all life devolves until it is back to zero, and we are one with the aliens.

I misunderstood the title to mean they were making a new Spaced Invaders movie and I was inexplicably happy for a moment. I love that godawful film.

Why? Because most moviegoers are stupid and the people who make films don't care about making art. They care about making money and stupid moviegoers are willing to throw there money away because they know the name and it reminds then of their childhood which was actually a better time because crap like this didn't exist on such a large scale.

@Commander x202x

I would watch that.

The question isn't "Why Space Invaders?" or even "Why Asteroids?". The question is "What happened to John Woo's Metroid?" I remember reading that Woo got the rights to do a Metroid film years ago, and then nothing (thankfully) ever came of it. (Mind, Metroid: Other M may have been worse for the story than a John Woo film.)

Hummm... BRB making a film about Pacman.

A movie about a fat ass eating dots who's being chased by ghosts... CONCEPT!

@ Darksaint76

They are. It will involve aliens. Really.