Pac-man: the pioneering video game will have its own movie

the actor of Joan the Virgin, Giustino Baldo, will bring the fast and hungry exploits of Pac-Man to the cinema. In other words, the pioneering video game will have its own movie.

According to Variety, the producer of Baldoni, Wayfarer Studiosis working on an (action !!) movie based on the popular game by ArcadianWith Bandai Namco Entertainmentthe Japanese video game publisher he created Pac-Man, as well as other vintage gems like Ace Combat, Galaga and Tekken.

Pac-Man was introduced in the United States in the 1990s. 1980 and, although the centenarians don’t understand it, continues to tweak and release new consoles and mobile games. In 2005 the famous Guinness World Record honored the cheese-shaped specimen as the “most successful coin operated gaming machine in the world”.

The ubiquitous video game, in which a hungry Pac-Man he makes his way through a maze as he tries to evade the deadly ghostsserved – despite the fact that many do not have this data – like previous inspiration for television, with an animated series of the same name from the 1980s.

His small screen debut

That production aired on ABC, not counting the cartoon show Pac-Man and the Spooky Adventuresaired on Disney XD in the United States.

But until now, Pac Man it was just a face yellow color resfilter on a pixelated screen. Below are the details of the action movie version, including, but not limited to, the plot and the physical interaction of the character, again as reported by Variety– being too lazy to talk about release dates.

It turns out that beloved old Pac-Man isn’t the only game currently receiving the big-screen Hollywood star treatment: the toy company. Mattel is currently developing card game films One, cars matchbox Y Rock ’em sock’ em.

The Pac-Man movie – untitled, for now – will be based on a certain story Chuck Williams, who has experience adapting video games for the big screen as a producer on the Paramount blockbuster Sonic the hedgehog.

Baldoni, Manu Gargi and Andrew Calof will produce on behalf of Wayfarer Studios, and Williams and Tim Kwok will produce through Lightbeam Entertainment.

Wayfarer Studiosthat Baldoni founded with Steve Sarowitz, supported the history of music in 2020, clouds, with Sabrina Carpentiere. Baldoni, best known for playing the mischievous hotel owner in the seriesand Giovanna the Virginhe also directed the romantic drama Five feet away (2019), protagonist Cole Sprouse.

The name of the game comes from the Japanese onomatopoeia paku (パ ク?), sound produced by opening and closing the mouth. The name was Romanized as The man of the disc in Japan (in English, puck is pronounced pac in Spanish).

However, In the middle changed to Pac Man for the US market (and later other Western markets) because people could change the “P” in Puck-Man, into an “F”, forming a famous English swear word.