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In 1982, Sam Brenner, Will Cooper and Ludlow Lamonsoff play at an amusement arcade, and Brenner enters a video game championship with a Donkey Kong match against Eddie Plant. Footage of the event is sealed in a time capsule and launched into space. Decades on, Brenner works as an electronics installer and is called to the White House with Lieutenant Colonel Violet van Patten, where Cooper, now the president, shows him surveillance video of an attack on Andersen Air Force Base in Guam. Brenner recognizes the pattern of Galaga, though Admiral James Porter disputes that reading. Ludlow says the attackers are aliens who found the capsule and took it as a declaration of war, and who now challenge Earth to a three-match contest built from the championship's games, which they claim to have already won.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Pixels (2015)
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- Sony Pictures hired Entura International to send takedown notices, and the company filed them indiscriminately against Vimeo videos containing the word "Pixels" in the title, including the 2010 short film the movie is based on and a 2006 Cypriot film. Once the notice was made public, it was withdrawn.
- Nintendo allowed a cameo of Mario in his Donkey Kong incarnation, and his Super Mario Bros. incarnation was to appear in a post-credits scene at the Washington Monument, but Columbus cut it after the filmmakers could not make the scene work.
- There were originally plans for a scene in which the Great Wall of China is attacked by the aliens, but the concept was removed from the script in hopes of improving the film's chances in the Chinese market.
- Peter Dinklage's character Eddie "The Fireblaster" Plant was loosely inspired by Billy Mitchell, an arcade champion who became famous in the 1980s and 1990s for setting high scoring records in Pac-Man and Donkey Kong, before later being accused of cheating.
- Jennifer Aniston was originally considered for the female lead but declined due to scheduling conflicts, and Michelle Monaghan joined the film to star as the female lead instead.
- The part of Lady Lisa, the glamorous protagonist of the fictional arcade game Dojo Quest, was offered to Elisha Cuthbert, but she turned the role down and it went to Ashley Benson.
