Space Invaders: The Movie

J.J Abrams once again returns to writing and directing Sci-Fi films. With legendary writer Stephen King also helping J.J with the script. After getting an weird signal from a alien race, NASA sends troops to patrol the moon base and make sure nothing bad is happening. When the NASA troops get attacked by the aliens, they send their best pilot on a mission to defeat the alien race. The movie was rated PG-13.

Full Plot
NASA creates a base on the moon in the year 2046. 3 weeks after the creation of the base, they find a weird signal coming from the base. They signal seemed to be threatening and was from a alien race. NASA sends troopers to patrol, then getting attacked by the aliens. NASA then sends their best pilot to attack the aliens. His ship crashes on the moon base and he has to hide from the aliens in order to survive. The aliens blocked the signals to the moon base leaving NASA unable to communicate with their pilot. They then send a fleet over to attack the aliens with all of their ships crashing with only few survivors. They meet up and start forming a plan to escape and attack. They agree to get to a terminal and enable the signal and ask NASA for backup, then they planned to have an attack. The message gets through and NASA sends another fleet. Their best pilot (who's name is Smith) then leads the survivors to the aliens to attack them, merging their fleet with the one's NASA had sent. They take down the alien fleet, but another fleet comes. This time with a mother ship. The fleet manages to attack the fleet successfully, leaving NASA victorious.

Reception
The film had a 83% on Rotten Tomatoes and a 7.7 on IMDB.

Merchandise
The movie earned T-Shirts, Toys and backpacks which helped the movie's growth. Lego then announced a Space Invaders Lego set based off the movie.

Sequel
Paramount decided to make a sequel to the movie where the plot was a new alien fleet had come and wanted to take over the earth. Paramount then cancelled it because they thought that would be expanding the series too much.

Awards and Nominations
Space Invaders The Movie was nominated for Best Writer and won Best special effects.

Cancelled Prequel and cancelled TV-Show
The movie was also gonna have a prequel and TV-Show before getting cancelled by paramount the same reason they cancelled the sequel.

Early drafts
The early drafts of the film was where aliens were raiding a space station and Smith was leading a fleet to defend it. Another draft was where the Aliens had visited the colonization on Mars that NASA had made, then the Aliens destroying it. Smith was a civilian that broke into NASA and took the ships going solo to defeat the aliens. The idea was then scrapped and replaced by the one we all know and love.