filmdrunk.uproxx.com - 7/2/2009
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The other day in a radio interview, the host was asking me about Hollywood’s hard-on for remakes and movies about toys. “What’s next?” the host asked me, “A movie about Pong!?” That’s right, the most preposterously retarded idea he could think of ...
Asteroids: The Movie
scifisquad.com 7/2/2009 — Filed under: News/Reactions Hopefully some of you are old enough to remember the classic Atari video game Asteroids , where the object of the game was to navigate this space ship through an asteroid field and shoot down whatever crazy flying object ...
Game Over: 'Asteroids' Becoming a Movie
getthebigpicture.net 7/3/2009 — Thirty years ago, Asteroids was released as a video game, helping usher in the demand for quarters that would continue unabated for about 15 years. Along with Space Invaders , Asteroids was one of the first major arcade games, and it helped put Atari on the map.
Now, it will join a ...
An 'Asteroids' movie? Haven't I seen this already?
popwatch.ew.com 7/2/2009 — Apparently, there was some kind of insane Hollywood bidding war to get the rights to make a movie based on the classic Asteroids videogame. You remember, the one barely rendered in straight lines that had the player trying to survive...
'Asteroids': That's a Movie Now
iwatchstuff.com 7/2/2009 —
Solidifying the notion that film concepts are no longer so much actual ideas as much as notable words, the movie rights to Asteroids , the 1979 Atari game that consisted of absolutely nothing but a triangular ship shooting shapes that looked ...
An Asteroids Movie? Really?
unrealitymag.com 7/2/2009 —
Just when you don’t think things can get much worse on the Hollywood remake front, we receive this horrible news:
Universal has won a four-studio bidding war to win the film rights to the classic Atari video game Asteroids. Newcomer Matthew Lopez, who came out of Disney’s writing ...
Asteroids Movie Exclusive
movies.ign.com 7/23/2009 — UK, July 23, 2009 - When Universal announced plans to turn the classic arcade game Asteroids into a movie , there was much head-scratching within the geek community as to what shape a film based on the property's rather slim premise would take. ...
Asteroids Movie Exclusive
au.movies.ign.com 7/25/2009 — UK, July 23, 2009 - When Universal announced plans to turn the classic arcade game Asteroids into a movie , there was much head-scratching within the geek community as to what shape a film based on the property's rather slim premise would take. ...
Universal To Make Asteroids Movie
slashfilm.com 7/2/2009 —
When movie studios are developing big budget big screen movies based on Stretch Armstrong and Candyland , I knew it was only a matter of time before Hollywood started to mine some of the classic video games of the children of the ...
Asteroids The Movie
themovieblog.com 7/2/2009 — Ok, well all know that video game movies suck… and suck hard (I have the slightest glimmer of hope that the upcoming Prince of Persia MIGHT break the trend… but I’m not holding my breath). My basic argument as to WHY they all suck, ...
Asteroids Movie Coming From Universal
filmofilia.com 7/3/2009 —
According to THR, Universal Pictures is bringing the Atari game Asteroids to the big screen.
Universal won the bidding war, and assigned Matthew Lopez , who worked on Disney’s Race To Witch Mountain and Bedtime Stories , to write the script while Lorenzo di Boneventura ...
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