Definitive proof that god doesn't exist:

[Benfea]

http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/678/678023p1.html

Someone bought the rights to make a Pac-Man movie.

Let me repeat that: a Pac-Man movie. Someone paid for the right to make one. The human race is doomed. You know that, right?

[Benfea]

1. Aw... did my thread title scare people away?

Come on. Someone has to be just as horrified as I am about the prospect of an ultra-low budget movie based on Pac-Man.

[KitchenWitch]

2. Scary

[WindRavenX]

3. Pac-Man.

How?

[Benfea]

4. That's the part I don't understand.

Pac-Man is old enough that it's mindlessly simple. I can't fathom what kind of story could possibly come from a yellow blob running around a maze eating floating pills.

[Duer 157099]

5. Maybe they'll cast Rush Limbaugh in the title role? n/t

[Benfea]

7. Touché!

:rofl:

[Random_Australian]

20. ...

:rofl:

[AllegroRondo]

15. Well, it did have a cartoon in the 80's

which was also mindlessly simple.

[Initech]

6. Concrete proof that Hollywood has run out of ideas.

:puke:

[Benfea]

8. This isn't exactly Hollywood.

The rights were sold to some no-name indy outfit that plans on doing very low budget films with these licenses.

[EstimatedProphet]

17. The 'straight-to-video' market, eh?

[Benfea]

19. I'm not sure if it'll actually go straight to video or not...

…but yeah, expect the same stellar quality as you find in DTV products.

[Blue_Tires]

9. eh...the made "Mario Brothers" into a movie as well

so what can you do?

and yes, hollywood ran out of original ideas a few years ago...

[Atmashine]

10. Cool!

I like cheesy movies. Mortal Kombat's the best.

[last_texas_dem]

11. I think there was once a Pac-Man TV show

I'm hoping this isn't a figment of my imagination... I swear I remember a Saturday morning cartoon based on Pac-Man when I was about three or four years old (so this is ca. 1986-87). Of course, that *was* during the eighties when the game was peaking in popularity so it's a bit more understandable. I'm not quite sure what would possess an aspiring filmmaker to focus on that topic more than twenty years after the game's peak popularity, though...

(Alright, I just checked on IMDB and saw that this cartoon did indeed exist, but was launched in '82. I must have seen it in a rerun, probably on some channel like the USA Network or something!)

[ET Awful]

12. Hell, I half expected the Brazillian joke when I opened the thread

Pac Man pales by comparison :P

[Benfea]

13. True, true. ;) n/t

[baldguy]

14. You think a Pac-Man movie will doom humanity?

Hell, Larry the Cable Guy got a movie.

[EstimatedProphet]

16. Pac-Man: The Movie

Starring Jim Carrey as Pac-Man

Reese Witherspoon as Ms. Pac-Man

Kevin Spacey, Paul Giamatti, Robert DeNiro, and Samuel L. Jackson as the Monsters

Vern Troyer as the Cherries

Andy Serkis as the Power Pellet

Mike Myers as the Normal Pellet

"Two BIG thums up!" Ebert and Roeper At The Movies

Nominated for the Palme D'Or at the Cannes Film Festival

Seven Golden Globe Nominations

3 Academy Award nominations including Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay

Don'r miss this film! It will change the way you look at video games forever!

[Benfea]

18. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! *runs away* n/t