With the success of Sonic The Hedgehog and its sequel, the online game adaptation floodgates are nonetheless large open. And whereas Pac-Man has popped up in cameo kind elsewhere on the massive display screen (most notably in Pixels), he is now getting his personal film.

Initially known as Puck-Man, the sport made its approach over – altering its identify alongside the best way from Japan in 1980 to change into a coin-op arcade sensation. The essential recreation – by which an ever-hungry, pellet-noshing yellow character has to navigate mazes whereas evading vibrant ghosts – has since spawned sequel video games reminiscent of Ms. Pac-Man, TV sequence and sufficient merchandise to fill the Hampton Court docket maze.

Chuck Williams, who labored within the Sonic story division, got here up with the idea for a live-action Pac-Man film, with Bandai Namco Leisure producing the film alongside actor/director/producer Justin Baldoni’s Wayfarer Studios firm.

Now we wait to see whether or not something within the film will be as entertaining as this Futurama gag.