Atari’s Missile Command Movie Still Coming

 

Emmett/Furla/Oasis Films has just teamed up with Atari to produce and finance two movies based on their popular 80s arcade titles Centipede and Missile Command. That’s right, previously established brand names keep reigning supreme in Hollywood.

Deadline was the first to report on the Atari games being developed for the big screen with Stephen Belafonte, Wayne Marc Godfrey and Robert Jones on board as executive producers. They’re not exactly the first Atari titles that come to mind as far as feature film adaptations are concerned, but that doesn’t really matter.

Of course, the companies behind these projects couldn’t be more thrilled as Atari’s CEO Fred Chesnais said they are “hrilled to partner with Emmett/Furla/Oasis Films to develop feature films based on two of our most beloved titles. Centipede and Missile Command are part of Atari’s unparalleled and rich library of popular games and we cannot wait to see the movies come to life.”

A Missile Command movie was previously in the works as a movie at Fox back in 2011, but it appears that project never made any progress, which is why it’s coming back around again. However, this is the first time Centipede has been revealed for development into its own movie, though the game was one of the prominent titles featured in Pixels last year. The only problem is that neither of these games really have a story.