New Line’s ‘House Invaders’ Film is Again in Enterprise

Subsequent up on the ever-expanding record of video game adaptations? A film for House Invaders, apparently.

Per Deadline, New Line Cinema is lastly making good on its hopes to deliver Taito’s shoot ’em as much as life. First introduced again in 2019, the studio and manufacturing firm Safehouse Photos have put comedy writers Ben Zazove and Evan Turner on script duties. Individually, they’ve written or produced for motion pictures like Sherlock Gnomes (Zazove) and Journey to the Middle of the Earth (Turner), however as a pair, they wrote the 2023 Netflix movie The Outlaws and wrote an action-comedy known as Officer Change in improvement with John Cena connected to star.

Developer Taito launched House Invaders first hit arcades in 1978, and has gone on to change into one of many highest-grossing video video games ever. Since its launch, it’s change into a franchise with remasters, remakes, and sequels unfold throughout console generations, PC, and cellphones. As of 2025, the latest installment is the iOS and Android title House Invaders Infinity Gene Evolve.

House Invaders is the newest retro sport Hollywood desires for the silver display screen. Additionally on the docket are movies primarily based on Sega’s OutRun and Shinobi franchises, and Pac-Man from Bandai Namco. We’ll see if House Invaders will get to the end line within the subsequent few years, or simply shoots and shuffles its solution to improvement hell.

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