Warners buys Midway Games

Film studio Warners has pointed up the rights to Midway Games for $33 the public after the circle went into bankruptcy.

So what does this mean for the company? Well, Midway was the arcade game developer responsible for the likes of Pac Man, Ms Pac Man, and the legendary Space Invaders.

It in like manner developed the likes of Mortal Kombat and Space Invaders.

Depending on what rights Warners actually now owns – and we’d assume it went for the lot, including the ability to turn the properties into films and not just use it to fuel their games department – this will almost certainly mean that we could see Midway-based movies.

So, that’s some other take on Mortal Kombat (though later than Street Fighter’s melancholy showing, that might not be a certainty) and Space Invaders set to hit our screens?

Space Invaders could see the entire world destroyed – paging Roland Emmerich! (Shudder).

Spy Hunter might be tougher- Universal has been pushing that one end development purgatory beneficial to years now.

And what of Ms Pac Man? Surely no one would try to construction a movie out of that? Right? Riiiight? Oh, hang put on…

[Source: Variety]

So, Space Invaders: The Movie. Who’d you cast?
 

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