‘Pac-man’ was born 42 years ago, and since then his silhouette, his sonorous “Waka waka waka” or the perfect score of 3,333,360 points have become icons of pop culture. There have been more than 60 different video games starring the character or his family, two television series and even board games, but there has always been something that has stuck to him: a movie.
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After many years of finding the perfect way to do it, Chuck Williams, the producer of ‘Sonic the Movie’ thinks he has the formula for ‘Pac-man’ to work on the big screen. And in real action, not in animation, mind you. Let’s remember that the yellow ball was seen prominently in ‘Pixels’ and ‘Wreck-It Ralph!’, but if it holds the screen for an hour and a half it is something that remains to be seen.
In full pacmania, at the beginning of the 80s, they tried to make a movie of the character but they failed to go beyond their stage of development. In 2004, Crystal Sky announced that it had plans to bring a version that will “reinvent the movie experience”. Crystal Sky is the producer of such hits as ‘A few cool kids 2’ (and the television series divided into three films), ‘Tekken 2’ or ‘Cody the robosapien’. What a bullet we dodge.
The good thing about ‘Pac-man’ becoming a movie is that doesn’t have enough lore for fans to be demanding for something to come out beyond its protagonist and the four ghosts: Blinky, Pinky, Inky and Clyde. We’ll see if it ends up being a ‘Sonic, the movie’ or stays in a sad ‘Alone in the dark’.