{"id":4522,"date":"2025-08-10T00:20:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T00:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/the-space-invaders-movie-is-apparently-still-happening\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T00:20:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T00:20:18","slug":"the-space-invaders-movie-is-apparently-still-happening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/the-space-invaders-movie-is-apparently-still-happening\/","title":{"rendered":"The Space Invaders movie is apparently still happening"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 engadget-charcoal\">It&rsquo;s been a few years since we last heard anything about <ins>the Space Invaders movie<\/ins> that is reportedly in the works, but a new report suggests things are inching forward again. According to <em><ins>Deadline<\/ins><\/em>, Ben Zazove and Evan Turner (<em>The Out-Laws<\/em>) are now on board to write the movie for Warner Bros.&rsquo; New Line Cinema.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 engadget-charcoal\">A movie adaptation of Taito&rsquo;s classic arcade game has been brewing for over a decade now, after <ins>Warner Bros. bought the rights<\/ins> to spin it into a film back in 2014. It was reported in 2019 that screenwriter Gregg Russo (<em>Mortal Kombat<\/em> 2021) had been tapped to write the script, but it seems some changes have been made in the years since. There&rsquo;s no word yet on a release date or how it&rsquo;ll approach the alien invasion story. Video game adaptations have been having a bit of a moment lately, though, so they may be looking to ride that momentum and actually bring this one to life now. Time will tell.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>The Space Invaders movie is apparently still happening<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&rsquo;s been a few years since we last heard anything about the Space Invaders movie that is reportedly in the works, but a new report suggests things are inching forward again. According to Deadline, Ben Zazove and Evan Turner (The Out-Laws) are now on board to write the movie for Warner Bros.&rsquo; New Line Cinema&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/the-space-invaders-movie-is-apparently-still-happening\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;The Space Invaders movie is apparently still happening&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4523,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}