"Game Over" for Warner Bros.

"Game Over" for Warner Bros.

It's Game Over for Warner Bros. Variety reports that Tim Hill and Michael Rubiner have sold their animated comedy pitch Game Over to the studio for a mid-six figure sum.

Hill and Rubiner will write the story of a video game character who ventures into other games in search of a new life. No further information was given on the film, but this sounds like a pretty interesting idea on the surface. It's somewhat in the vein of WB's forthcoming Osmosis Jones. They could do so many cool things with it. I say base it in actual cheesy arcade games from the '80s. Imagine the possibilities! The fictional lead character could have run-ins with everyone from Ms. Pac-Man to Q*bert! Sure, getting the rights to all those games and characters would probably be cost prohibitive, but it sure would be cool!

The film will be produced by Jim Henson Pictures. Hill directed 1999's Muppets From Space, and helmed the forthcoming Disney pic Max Keeble's Big Move.

Big Move stars Alex D. Linz (Home Alone 3, One Fine Day) as a much-bullied seventh grader who finds out that he's moving to a new city in a week. Rather than put up with the normal routine of school, he starts getting revenge on all the people who have picked on him. After creating all kinds of mayhem, Max finds out he's not moving after all and must face up to the consequences of his actions.

Hill also helmed the hilarious stop-motion action figure short Action League Now! that preceded 1997's Good Burger movie. In the theatrical short, the Action League must save KISS action figures of Gene Simmons, Ace Frehley, Peter Criss, and Paul Stanley from the evil clutches of Big Baby (voiced by Harry Connick Jr.), a large doll who will teethe anything.

Story from Filmforce IGN.