Asteroids: The Movie - coming to a theater near you!

[SunnyD]

Universal won bid for rights to make a movie out of the classic arcade hit "Asteroids"

Huh, what? Asteroids? Imagine the MASSIVELY deep plot and story lines!

Universal has won a four-studio bidding war to pick up the film rights to the classic Atari video game "Asteroids." Matthew Lopez will write the script for the feature adaptation, which will be produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura.

In "Asteroids," initially released as an arcade game in 1979, a player controlled a triangular space ship in an asteroid field. The object was to shoot and destroy the hulking masses of rock and the occasional flying saucer while avoiding smashing into both.

As opposed to today's games, there is no story line or fancy world-building mythology, so the studio would be creating a plot from scratch. Universal, however, is used to that development process, as it's in the middle of doing just that for several of the Hasbro board game properties it is translating to the big screen, such as "Battleship" and "Candyland."

Honestly, I can see Johnny Depp starring in Candyland. Sean Connery in Battleship please?

WTF moments galore!

 

[Barfo]

As opposed to today's games, there is no story line or fancy world-building mythology

That's just perfect for Hollywood's standards, at last they don't have to pretend there's a plot to the movie.

 

[So]

This can't be serious. No way someone would pay millions of dollars for the rights to make a film about a triangle that shoots decimal points on a black screen.

 

[CPA]

I rocked Asteroids on the old Atari 2600.


no pun intended.

 

[SunnyD]

Think of the theme music! Duuuum DUUUUM duuuum DUUUUUM duuuuum DUUUUUUM duuuuum DUUUUUM....

 

[MrDudeMan]

Originally posted by: CPA
I rocked Asteroids on the old Atari 2600.


no pun intended.

$50 says if the game could be adapted to support player versus player I would rock you. epenis++.

 

[Gibsons]

Originally posted by: So
This can't be serious. No way someone would pay millions of dollars for the rights to make a film about a triangle that shoots decimal points on a black screen.

but throw in the alien dinner plates that show up at random times? box office gold.

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

quick someone link to the trailer for Minesweeper the movie!

 

[Born2bwire]

Originally posted by: AyashiKaibutsu
quick someone link to the trailer for Minesweeper the movie!

That's what I thought this was, another parody trailer. Man I was disappointed, in more ways than one, in finding out this was a real thing.

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: So
This can't be serious. No way someone would pay millions of dollars for the rights to make a film about a triangle that shoots decimal points on a black screen.

please tell me YOU aren't serious with that comment? they can write a story...

 

[Crono]

They just want to appropriate the name for its fame. A movie based on Asteroids is guaranteed to make a decent amount of money unless it's utter crap. They are capitalizing on the fact that people that were kids during the glory days of games like Asteroids, and board games like Battleship, will now be making enough money to frivolously see a movie out of nostalgia. Hence all the comic book movies and cartoon to movie adaptations for the 80s kids now in adulthood with some cash to burn.

 

[nakedfrog]

Asteroids... it's like Armageddon, times a thousand! GET ME BRUCE WILLIS!

 

[moparacer]

This thread made me break out the Atari arcade hits for a few games of Asteroids....