May 13, 2010
Adam Sandler taking ‘Pixels’ to big-screen
Remember the short film Pixels, where video game characters from the ’80s take over New York? Happy Madison is turning it into a feature-length film. This news comes just a week and a half after Heat Vision noted that Hollywood is feeling shorts fatigue:
Now Hollywood is suffering a shorts overdose. Execs and agents realize a guy with a computer can create a spaceship over a city but wonder if that person can tell a story. And not just once, in a hyped-up short.
Adam Sandler seems to think this short has something special. Watch it again below because it’s just that awesome. Here’s hoping they don’t screw it up…
The French filmmaker behind “Pixels,” Patrick Jean, has teamed up with Adam Sandler’s production banner Happy Madison to develop a big-screen take. The team is in talks with Columbia, where Happy Madison has its first-look deal, to set up the project at the studio.
