The game itself may not have much of a plot, but that hasn’t stopped producers Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Gigi Pritzker from starting work on the film. Their track record can be deemed “mixed”:
For di Bonaventura, Space Invaders is the latest of a string of projects based on 80s touchstones. He is a producer on the Transformers and G.I. Joe movies, both based on popular Me Decade toys. And he is developing Asteroids, based on the classic arcade game, and a remake of 1989’s Pet Sematary.
Pritzker’s Odd Lot is one of the key companies behind Drive, the much-buzzed-about thriller from Nicolas Winding Refn and starring Ryan Gosling, and is a producer on Ender’s Game, the adaptation of the Orson Scott Card sci-fi novel.
-Richard Clark