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Ain't It Cool News - The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.: Get ready for this! ASTEROIDS: THE MOVIE coming soon to a theater near you!
Seriously? OMG! WTF?: Atari’s Asteroids is being turned into a movie for some reason
MTV Movies Blog: Hollywood Inserts Quarter For ‘Asteroids,’ Will Adapt Classic Atari Video Game
Gawker: Defamer: What Could Be Better Than an Asteroids Movie?
io9: Movie Based On Asteroids Game Will Boggle Your Mind [Development Deal]
Get ready for this! ASTEROIDS: THE MOVIE coming soon to a theater near you!
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... here. Methinks someone high up at Universal is having a bit of Peter Pan complex. There are worse things for an executive to have, for sure... But this is the studio that's working to bring us Candyland and Battleship and now they've jumped from the board game to the classic arcade game. ASTEROIDS: THE MOVIE. Should have been an '80s movie starring Fred Savage and Lance Guest. Alas, according to Mr. Borys Kitt at Hollywood Reporter we're getting the movie now, with Lorenzo di Bonaventura producing and RACE TO WITCH MOUNTAIN's Matthew Lopez attached to script. Of course ...
Atari’s Asteroids is being turned into a movie for some reason
Seriously? OMG! WTF? —
... Universal actually beat out 3 other studios for the rights to make a movie based on the Atari game Asteroids according to The Hollywood Reporter. At this point they don’t know have a plot, but they do have a writer to figure it out. Hopefully that writer will be able to tell me why this classic video game was such a hot commodity that 4 studios want to turn into a movie. I seriously just don’t get it. Watch the video above of the game and tell me what about that says make it into a big blockbuster movie. What is next Pong? ...
Hollywood Inserts Quarter For ‘Asteroids,’ Will Adapt Classic Atari Video Game
MTV Movies Blog —
... News of Hollywood cherry-picking video game franchises for movie adaptations is nothing new, but here’s something that’s a bit more surprising. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the latest game to be slated for the big screen is the action-packed “Asteroids.” ...
What Could Be Better Than an Asteroids Movie?
Gawker: Defamer —
... Apparently four different studios were fighting over Asteroids. Yeah, Asteroids. Like, the Atari video game that's basically one pixel firing mini-pixels at another pixel. I can't wait for the movie, which Universal will make. Shia LaBeouf better star. I hope Shia LaBeouf stars in everything for the rest of forever. I hope Shia LaBeouf marries me. [THR] ...
Movie Based On Asteroids Game Will Boggle Your Mind [Development Deal]
io9 —
... will be developing this story from scratch. Hollywood Reporter notes: Universal . . . 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." Couldn't they just combine Battleship with Asteroids so we could have a plotless tale of shooting that spanned skies and sea? Doesn't that sound awesome? via Hollywood Reporter
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Four Studios Fought For the Rights to the Asteroids Video Game?
BuzzSugar —
... Do you remember the Asteroids video game? It's one of the most basic video games ever. The player has to shoot asteroids with his or her tiny spaceship and avoid being smashed. Video games have come a long way since the Asteroids days, and yet some folks in Hollywood are very anxious to bring Asteroids back - in movie form. In fact, Universal just won the rights in a bidding war against three other studios. ...
Asteroids Arcade Game Adaptation Baffles. Today in Film Bloggery 07/02/09
SpoutBlog —
It’s an appropriate week for Universal to announce they’re making an adaptation of the classic Atari game Asteroids, because chances are the thing will end up opening on a 4th of July weekend. Just like Independence Day and Armageddon. Actually, as far as I can tell a movie of that arcade game could very well be a sequel to Armageddon. Except that Universal won the four-studio bidding war, and Disney did not (I’m unsure if Disney was even ...
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... * The Hollywood Reporter says that the very old video game, “Asteroids,” is being turned into a movie. I guess “Pong: The Movie” was already taken. (That joke can’t be original, can it?) Begging the question: Why?????????!!!!!!! I’m not saying it couldn’t turn out to be a fun movie — miracles happen. However, in a world where we have thousand of science fiction novels, comics, and TV shows of all levels of quality to adapt, why use a game only old guys like me remember as an excuse to make a silly sci-fi ...
Atari’s ‘Asteroids’ video game is being made into a movie?
In Case You Didn't Know —
... According to The Hollywood Reporter, Universal won a bidding war for the big-screen rights to the classic 1979 Atari game Asteroids. ...
Game Over: 'Asteroids' Becoming a Movie
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... Now, it will join a diverse and risky collection of consumer products being built at Universal. The Hollywood Reporter says that da U beat three other studios to snag the film rights to Asteroids, which will be written (and to a certain degree, invented out of thin air, by ...
