When it comes out it won't even be space invaders. So why do they bother using the name? Is space invaders that big of a name that sells?
I don't think so.

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

Smh.

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?

If it looks exactly like Space Invaders, low res sprites and all, then I might see it.

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.

Lorenzo di Boneventura is just one of 13+ credited producers on the last two Transformers movies, and not even an executive one at that. I doubt he had any creative input for better or worse. And as the former president of WB who helped to give us The Matrix, it's not all bad.

Then again he's also developing Asteroids...

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

lol.

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

Oh Hollywood, you silly goose. "Our market research tells us that retro games are popular right now. This could be a gold mine."

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...

When will it end? Next you will be telling me their making Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots: The Movie. Staring Wolverine. And Kate from Lost. Real Steel.

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

Soo, it gon' be like transformers but with aliens, huh?... shit...

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.

Murdoc wins. Give that man a medal.

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.

Can't wait for and hour and a half if Shia's shenanigans and 45 minutes of the invaders

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

My name is Hollywood, and I am dumb.

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

This has to be one of the strangest movie tie ins ever.

@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!"

Why not?

What if it's a film about two awesome Space Invaders players competing to see who's best, like Rocky or something. And of course Willem Defoe plays a gamer come out of retirement.
Maybe it could have a seen in a club where Defoe trips out on upper drugs and sees everything as Space Invaders Extreme.

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

Oh boy, Lorenzo di Bonaventura.

Incoming film built like a mindless summer cash cow.

@Ace Fibble

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

@DstryrDestroyer and @Ace Flibble,

More like Independence Day 4...

Independence Day 2 - In production.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1628841/

Independence Day 3 - In production.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1628842/

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

Bayvaders

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

@ King Chrono - lmao I saw the preview for that POS movie a few weeks ago and laughed through the whole thing. "but he's just a sparring robot" "GET HIM A FIGHT"

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.

o.O

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.

Sadly, I get the feeling Murdoc's plot is 10x better then what the actual movie is going to be like...

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.

*Facepalm

@Commander x202x

I would watch that.

I think it's high past time we ran this thing into the ground.

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.)

Film it in 4D and MAYBE I'll go see it.

Hummm... BRB making a film about Pacman.

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

I read somewhere that someone was going to make a Battleship movie.

Hollywood has no clue.

@ Darksaint76

They are. It will involve aliens. Really.