Pixels
Former arcade champions must defend Earth when aliens recreate classic 1980s video-game characters as real weapons after mistaking old footage for a declaration of war. Pixels follows Sam Brenner, a onetime world-class arcade player reduced to installing home theater systems, when an extraterrestrial force begins attacking major cities with three-dimensional versions of Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, Space Invaders and other cabinet classics. The aliens had intercepted decades-old recordings of the games and treated high scores as hostile acts. Brenner’s old friend, now the President of the United States, recalls the teenage rivalry and recruits him along with fellow former champions Ludlow Lamonsoff and Eddie Plant. Military specialist Violet van Patten joins the improvised squad, supplying hardware and tactical support while the group tries to reverse-engineer the pixelated invaders. Early skir