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Pac-Man movie in development. No, seriously.

arstechnica.com — Producer Steven Paul announced that his production company, Crystal Sky Pictures, has managed to bring in $200 million to help fund five films. These include Castlevania, an unnamed sequel to Hard Boiled (which inspired John Woo's Stranglehold), and a celluloid version of Pac Man.

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  • inactive, on 05/23/2008, -3/+356Are you ***** kidding me?
  • MaxMWood, on 05/23/2008, -1/+181Think they will pay lots of money for voice acting? WAKKA WAKKA WAKKA WAKKA
  • 3sicasity, on 05/23/2008, -0/+164How the hell would this work?
  • inactive, on 05/23/2008, -1/+97HE DIES IN THE END
  • laaabaseball, on 05/23/2008, -1/+84Oh great... and lets make another Super Mario Bros. movie too while we're at it.
  • fishbeef33, on 05/23/2008, -0/+80I hear the movie ends when the film suddenly breaks on game board 256.
  • bradhart2, on 05/23/2008, -0/+72just waiting to see who voices the ghosts...
  • muxaulo, on 05/23/2008, -0/+72Don't ask, just *insert coin to continue*
  • bwishey, on 05/23/2008, -0/+71So it's this? In movie form?:
    http://drugsinspace.ytmnd.com/
  • observin, on 05/23/2008, -0/+64John Goodman as Pac-Man?
  • grimreaperev, on 05/23/2008, -0/+60Samuel L. Jackson
  • ObamaWins08, on 05/23/2008, -8/+50OM NOM NOM NOM
  • RlAA, on 05/23/2008, -2/+41How -DARE- they alter the astronomical storyline of Pac-Man!?
  • jmpeagle, on 05/23/2008, -2/+41Best. Movie. Ever. A profound social statement with gritty reality.
  • chanop, on 05/23/2008, -1/+38Infinity diggs for this comment??

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/25157444@N04/25154945 ...
  • ctenn2ls, on 05/23/2008, -5/+42Worst. Movie. Ever.
  • AngryAngryBrian, on 05/23/2008, -0/+36Power Pellets mother ***** do you eat them?
  • franciscofelipe, on 05/23/2008, -0/+35Rick Astley
  • Pssdoff, on 05/23/2008, -0/+34Well, because the new Pac Man movie is a porno-thriller, those white dots are ecstacy. The movie follows Pack Mann a colorful pimp from Miami who, due to a hole in his pocket, must recover his lost stash of E by walking the streets of Miami.
  • slapded, on 05/23/2008, -0/+33i hope banana has a cameo
  • LosingTheFight, on 05/23/2008, -1/+33Wait a minute, Castlevania? Did anyone else see that? I'm actually excited to see how that turns out.
  • CMiYC, on 05/23/2008, -1/+28I'd like to see a Pac-Man movie that uses no CGI.
  • NeoCortex, on 05/23/2008, -0/+25Bruce Willis. But you won't know he's a ghost until the end of the film.
  • inactive, on 05/23/2008, -0/+25You would rather a movie about Pong?
  • grumpyrain, on 05/23/2008, -2/+25The following movie has been classified M15+ for a mature audience.
    It contains extreme cannibalism.
  • benjic, on 05/23/2008, -4/+25GOD DAMNIT UWE BOLL.. GO TO BED.
  • adolfojp, on 05/23/2008, -0/+20I would pay to watch that movie.
  • prelives, on 05/23/2008, -0/+18You know what they call a power pellet with cheese in France?
  • paperclipsNsoup, on 05/23/2008, -0/+18So what are those white dots then... Quantum dots?
  • Duositex, on 05/23/2008, -0/+19Let's hope the guy that came up with this idea doesn't make RE-production
  • astrotrain, on 05/23/2008, -0/+18Robert De Niro
    Ray Liotta
    Joe Pesci
    Frank Welker

    (and if they have Sue)
    Marisa Tomei
  • PopcornDave, on 05/23/2008, -2/+19We've got that already, it's the 2008 election.
  • MikeSD34, on 05/23/2008, -2/+18Never gonna give you up
    Never gonna let you down
    Never gonna run around and eat you
  • breezytrees, on 05/23/2008, -0/+16No, seriously, the teaser has already been released: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWL6j0SvqV0
  • jlebrech, on 05/23/2008, -0/+15How about having patrick stewart as a professor that uses his newly formulated drug in order to find and destroy a horde of ghosts that are plaguing a city.
  • vtbarrera, on 02/03/2009, -0/+15Apparently not.
  • chanop, on 05/23/2008, -1/+16http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Mario_Bros._(fi ...

    The movie failed pretty hard
  • chuckDontSurf, on 05/23/2008, -0/+15Gilbert Gottfried.
  • DrSnugglebunny, on 05/23/2008, -0/+14We want a trilogy! Mr, Mrs, and Baby Pacman!
    Soundtrack by Enya, please.
  • Dubbsacc, on 05/23/2008, -0/+13Power Pellet avec du fromage?
  • franciscofelipe, on 05/23/2008, -1/+12or maybe:

    "From legendary director Uwe Bowl......... In a world of lines and balls, one line will fight another to determine who can bounce a ball more times.....one will win, one will lose....it's an epic film about the struggles a line goes through to become a... "
  • nevpayne, on 05/23/2008, -2/+13WHAT DOES IT MEAN, I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT MEANS "TO WAKKA WAKKA WAKKA" ?!
  • ihavebeenseen, on 05/23/2008, -1/+12Pac-Man Jones as Pac-Man
  • astrotrain, on 05/23/2008, -0/+12** Don LaDontaine Voice **

    A hero story of a ball.... against two evil sticks. This summer
    be prepared to be Pong'ed!
  • Efilnikufesin, on 05/23/2008, -0/+11that would actually be pretty cool
  • Shogi, on 05/23/2008, -2/+12***** Pac-man, tell me more about the Hard Boiled sequel.
  • stayhumble, on 05/23/2008, -0/+10Philip Seymour Hoffman just needs to put on a few pounds, and its on.
  • t2t2, on 05/23/2008, -0/+10If they would do it like this, maybe not:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWL6j0SvqV0
  • chris4404, on 05/23/2008, -0/+10It'll never make it past pre-production.
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