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NEWS: Space Invaders Film Hires New Scriptwriters

Now, seriously, I know that video game adaptations have become more popular among Hollywood studios due to the successes of the Super Mario Bros. Movie, Minecraft, Sonic and even Uncharted, but how do you adapt Space Invaders? While both Mario and Minecraft don't have the deepest stories in their games of origins, they at least have some foundations in other games and aditional media, Space Invaders is basically an alien invasion story, like War of the Worlds (which I think Taito's designers cited it as an influence to the original arcade game) or Independence Day.

I can only speculate about just how atrocious the original script for a movie based on an almost half-century old arcade game with no story beyond "shoot the endless waves of alien spaceships until you lose all your lives and run out of quarters or until the machine breaks" might have been to necessitate a total rewrite.

Can we just... Can we just stop the vapid adaptations?

Seriously, it's not even a video game with a rich plotline. It's Space Invaders. Seriously, if I were head of this project, I would just write the grittiest story about a mutually genocidal war between Humanity and aliens, all just to piss off whoever forced me into getting involved in such a thing in the first place.

Wasn't there already a gritty Gamecube adaptation of Space Invaders in 2002 called Space Raiders that added a story?

And didn't it flop hard?

At least when they made Tetris into a movie, they managed to mine the events surrounding its licensing to make a good film, rather than try to adapt the falling blocks into a narrative.

Can we just... Can we just stop the vapid adaptations? Seriously, it's not even a video game with a rich plotline. It's Space Invaders. Seriously, if I were head of this project, I would just write the grittiest story about a mutually genocidal war between Humanity and aliens, all just to piss off whoever forced me into getting involved in such a thing in the first place.

Years after the Invaders unsuccessful invasion of Earth, the Invaders have invaded Neptune and Neptune's planetary shape has turned itself into a Black Hole. The whole Invader fleet have begun their invasion into the Solar System until they reached Earth using Saucers that came from Neptune and spread across the Galaxy, creating huge bases for their Invasion Force. A list of Images of the UFO sightings was located in Earth and the common UFO, a Walker UFO and finally a Ball UFO were shown, Earth's forces hasten and developed a Laser Cannon that can transform as a Tank and a Space Fighter, they called it CG30, a prototype laser cannon that can kill the Invaders in ground, sky or space combat. They called this Operation as MJ-12. the fate of Earth and the Solar System depends on the CG30.