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‘Pixels’ Feature Gets Writer

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November 11, 2010


“Pixels,” the buzz-generating Internet short that hit the web earlier this year is coming to the big screen via Adam Sandler’s Happy Madison prods and Columbia, reports THR.

Tapped to script the web to silverscreen adaptation is longtime Adam Sandler collaborator Tim Herlihy, who worked with Sandler on Saturday Night Live, and many of his feature comedies like “Billy Madison,” “The Wedding Singer” and “Just Go With It.”

Written and directed by Patrick Jean, the two-minute short, which depicted 1980s video game characters attacking New York City, caught the eye of executives who saw the potential for a “Ghostbusters”-style action/comedy in which video game characters emerge from TV screens to inflict mayhem and destruction on the physical world.

Check out the short:

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