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A movie about Pac Man, one of the greatest video games of all time, might be coming to a theatre near you. Plug in the Atari.

Pac Man: The Movie

True story. I haven’t played video games in years. My brother brought his X-Box 360 to my house on a visit and it had a modern day version of Pac Man on it that caused me to lose three days of my life. We literally sat in front of the television for 72 hours playing Pac Man. It was part nostaglia, part competition, part flat out dumb, but we couldn’t quit. I’m not sure that means you make a movie out of it though.

Castle Sky Pictures has received financial backing, $200 million, from Grosvenor Park for the making of five features, one of which is about Pac Man.

“This financing is helping us in our expansion plans to greenlight films more quickly…the Grosvenor Park-funded slate include an adaptation of Richard Branson’s memoir “Losing My Virginity,” a bigscreen adaptation of vidgame “Pac-Man” and a sequel to John Woo’s actioner “Hard Boiled.”

After a little research, this project looks like it’s been in the works for a long time. Probably where it should stay. The trailer below is confirmation.

Ok, this isn’t the real trailer, but it’s so bad, it’s funny.