French director Patrick Jean's short animated film Pixel s is to be remade into a feature film.

Adam Sandler's production company, Happy Madison Productions will be producing the film, which is currently having its plot elongated by Bedtime Stories screenwriter Tim Herlihy.

The action comedy will als💯o star Sandler, who'll play opposite classic videogame characters such as the Space Invaders, Pac-Man and, er, some Tetris blocks.

The original short film begins when a man throws an old televisi🍒on out onto the street♛s of New York where it comes alive.

A cloud of pixels travels across the city, turning everythinไg it touches into retro videogame-st𝔍yle graphics.

The city is quickly destroyed by the rampaging 8-bitter🍸s as the🐬y tear through NYC like it's just an arcade background.

Pixels will open on 17 May 2013✨, meaning it'll face stiff competition from .