Pixels Trailer Invades Our Screens

What would you do if aliens interpreted examples of 1980s video games found in a space probe as a declaration of war? And sent giant versions of icons such as Pac-Man and Donkey Kong to attack us? Clearly, you’d hire... Adam Sandler to defend the human race. Or at least, that’s what happens in action-comedy Pixels.

Spawned from Patrick Jean’s inventive short{ =nofollow}, Pixels has is a big, brash Roland Emmerich-style alien invasion thriller welded to a high-concept Sandler comedy. The story finds US President Will Cooper (Kevin James) tracking down old friend and ‘80s video-game champ Sam Brenner (Sandler) so he can put together a team of old-school arcade masters (including Josh Gad and Peter Dinklage) to defeat the techno-menace. So, basically it’s Steve Wiebe and Billy Mitchell from** The King Of Kong **saving the world?

With director Chris Columbus aboard to marshal the spectacle from a script by Sandler plus Tim Herlihy and Timothy Dowling, Pixels also stars Michelle Monaghan, Jane Krakowski, Brian Cox and Sean Bean, who we’re not sure will survival to see the end credits. The film will land in UK cinemas on August 12.