With Hollywood’s starvation for online game variations nonetheless seemingly insatiable, it is now Bandai Namco’s flip to get in on the motion, shunting Pac-Man – arguing gaming’s most iconic mascot – onto the the large display screen in a live-action film adaptation.

That is based on the Hollywood Reporter, which says Bandai Namco is teaming up with Wayfarer Studios (the corporate behind Disney+ biopic Clouds) to deliver Pac-Man to cinemas.

Particulars are restricted proper now, however the film is alleged to be primarily based on an authentic thought by Chuck Williams, who’ll produce alongside Tim Kwok on behalf of Lightbeam Leisure.

If that title appears acquainted, Williams beforehand served as a producer on 2020’s Sonic the Hedgehog adaptation, and like that movie, Pac-Man will forego an all-CGI manufacturing in favour of the live-action route. Hopefully, the actual fact Pac-Man is mainly an enormous yellow circle will restrict the possibilities of his film design going drastically wrong.

This is not Pac-Man’s first dalliance with Hollywood, after all. In addition to starring in two short-lived animated collection through the years – one within the 80s and one in 2013 – the arcade capsule popper made a cameo in 2012’s Wreck-It Ralph and, extra lately. was become a marauding alien invader as a part of Adam Sandler’s “crushingly awful” film Pixels.

Presumably this newest journey to the large display screen is a part of Bandai Namco previously announced push to type a £96m interconnected “IP metaverse”.