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We've heard rumors about a MacGyver movie for a while now, but Variety is reporting that Saw director James Wan is in talks to direct the project. Wan might seem like an odd choice to take the helm of a MacGyver movie since the classic television show is about a pacifist trying to save the world through science and quick thinking, and not about gruesome murders and houses full of sadistic traps, but we have our reasons for thinking Wan is a great pick.

We're all pretty familiar with the half limbo, half terrible transition the world of video games turning into movies is. Someone always has the rights to some venerable franchise, but progress is rarely ever made. When progress is actually made, though, the movies turn out pretty disappointingly, with the best the genre has ever done being the slightly-above-mediocre Prince of Persia movie. The God of War movie rights have been floating around for quite some time, but now the writers responsible for four Saw movies, Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan are set to helm the project.

Currently making the rounds on the Internet: A wonderful fake trailer for Pac-Man: The Movie, whipped up by Therefore Productions.

Taking the psychological horror route, it's a mix of Iron Man, Saw, Shutter Island, and Crank 2: High Voltage: A Tony Stark-like pharmaceuticals magnate named "Michael Pacman" is under investigation for the dangerous side effects allegedly caused by his drugs, and he's put in a maze full of hallucinatory ghosts, wherein he must eat his tablets off shelves and drink glowing blue liquid to stay alive -- but suffer increasingly retro side effects.

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