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The short, in 2011, won the award for Best Short Film at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival
An alien race mistakes old video game images for a declaration of war and attacks the earth using the games themselves as models for their assaults. The President of the United States then calls his childhood friend Sam Brenner, a video game champion in the 80s, to defend the earth. The fate of our planet rests in the hands of an unlikely team of nostalgic gamers. The story can be summed up like this pixels2015 film directed by Chris Columbus – director of Mom I missed the plane and the first two chapters of Harry Potter – and which stars Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Michelle Monaghan, Peter Dinklage and Sean Bean. Not everyone knows, however, that the film is based on a very famous French short film from 2010: here’s what!
The short film from which it was based pixels
pixels is loosely based on the 2010 French short film of the same name directed and written by Patrick Jean. Released on YouTube on April 9, 2010, pixels shows the attack on the city of New York by some of the most famous 8-bit creatures from the world of gods video games how Space Invaderspacman, Tetris, Arkanoid Donkey Kong And frog. The short, in 2011, won the award for Best Short Film at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival.
