‘King of Kong’ Helmer Seth Gordon Taking ‘Pixels’ for Happy Madison?

One of the most impressive panels I saw at this year’s Comic-Con wasn’t for a $250 million live action blockbuster, but for Wreck-It Ralph, Disney’s upcoming animated film that stars John C. Reilly as a video game character who escapes from his game and rebels against the system. With this and Assassin’s Creed on the way, video game movies seem to be back en vogue, and now Variety reports that King of Kong director Seth Gordon is in talks to direct Pixels, Adam Sandler’s upcoming film about giant 8-bit video game characters from the 80’s like Pac Man, Frogger, Donkey Kong and more attacking The Big Apple. Read on! For your own reference here’s Patrick Jean’s awesome original short Pixels: Just Go With It writer Tim Dowling has just been hired to punch up the script and make it larger in scope to better replicate the Ghostbusters tone that Happy Madison Productions …