The yellow circle will come to life. The iconic video game series Pac Man will make a huge leap to the big screen and will do so in live-action formatunder the development of Bandai Namco, the company that created the brand, and Wayfarer Studios.
The film will be based on an idea of the creator and producer of Sonic The Hedgehog (2020)Chuck Williamsby Lightbeam Entertainment, according to a report on the website of CNET.
Wayfarer Studios was founded by Steve Sarowitz, fellow Paylocity founder Steve Sarowitz, and Jane the Virgin star Justin Baldoni. The studio created Five Feet Apart (2019)starring Haley Lu Richardson and Cole Sprouse (Riverdale), and also developed Clouds (2020) for DisneyPlus.
This live-action Pac-Man project It doesn’t have a release date yet and plot details have yet to be announced.. We don’t know if Blinky, Pinky, Inky and Clyde, the four ghosts chasing the yellow ball, will appear, or if the Pac-Man will be literally alive or controlled by a human.
The pressure of Pixel’s failure
It will not be the first time that Pac-Man has participated in a live-action movie, after the unsuccessful Pixels (2015)starring Adam Sandler and that, to get an idea of how bad it was and the criticism it received, It has a grotesque 15 percent approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes..
Pac-Man is one of the most legendary video game franchises in history, introduced to the American public in 1980, becoming an arcade phenomenon.
The bet on this live-action film is risky, due to the pressure left by the failure of Pixels and the unstable path of video game-based films. Some like Pokémon: Detective Pikachu and Sonic the Hedgehog 2 have been successful, each raising more than 400 million dollars, but feature films like Assassin’s Creed or Uncharted did not convince critics, beyond their box office performance.