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Space Invaders Film Hires New Scriptwriters

New Line Cinema's proposed Space Invaders film now has Ben Zazove and Evan Turner penning the script, Deadline reported on Friday. The two previously worked together on the action-comedy films Officer Exchange and The Out-Laws.

Deadline had reported in July 2019 that Greg Russo would write the script.

Warner Bros., New Line Cinema's parent company, acquired the film rights for Space Invaders in 2014.

At the time, Warner Bros. attached producers Akiva Goldsman (I Am Legend, Constantine, Paranormal Activity) from Weed Road Pictures, and Joby Harold and Tory Tunnell from Safehouse Pictures (Monarch: Legacy of Monsters) to the proposed project, with Matt Schwartz of Safehouse Pictures and Warner Bros.' Jesse Ehrman also attached to the project.

Deadline's report on Friday states that Goldsman, Harold, Tunnell, and Schwartz are still part of the project, in addition to Greg Lessans & Rachel Wizenberg overseeing the project for Weed Road Pictures. Deadline did not list Ehrman as being attached to the project in its Friday article.

Taito and Tomohiro Nishikado's classic game Space Invaders debuted in arcades in Japan in 1978, followed by its introduction in American arcades later that same year. The iconic game puts players in control of a cannon guarding four bases from slowly descending rows of aliens.

Source: Deadline (Matt Grobar)