scifisquad.com - 7/2/2009
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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 got in the way. That was it -- no storyline, ...
hollywoodreporter.com - 7/2/2009
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hollywoodreporter.com —
Universal has won a four-studio bidding war to pick
up the film rights to the classic Atari video
game "Asteroids."
'Asteroids' lands at Universal
hollywoodreporter.com - 7/2/2009
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hollywoodreporter.com —
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," ...
'Asteroids' lands at Universal
news-briefs.ew.com - 7/2/2009
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news-briefs.ew.com —
According to The Hollywood Reporter , Universal won
a bidding war for the big-screen rights to the
classic 1979 Atari game Asteroids. Writer Matthew Lopez, who recently worked on Disney's Bedtime Stories and Race to Witch Mountain , has the task of ...
Atari's 'Asteroids' heads to theaters | TV, movie and ...
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Atari Video Game 'Asteroids' Gets the Big Screen Treatment
Cinematical —
... game was to navigate this space ship through an asteroid field and shoot down whatever crazy flying object got in the way. That was it -- no storyline, no insane graphics -- just a bunch of glowing dots on a screen. Obviously the cinematic possibilities are endless (ahem, sarcasm), and so that's why there was a four-studio bidding war (!) for the film rights. Yup, four studios fought to win the film rights for Asteroids. That's where it's at right now in Hollywood ... Read the rest at SciFi Squad Filed under: Fandom, Newsstand ...
Asteroids Arcade Game Adaptation Baffles. Today in Film Bloggery 07/02/09
SpoutBlog —
... on when this thing will be, because focusing on what this thing will be is futile. And that’s the primary reaction to the news today: what the hell will an Asteroids movie be about that will fill up a feature-length running time? And why did four studios fight over such a simple property? Check out some of these reactions from the film blogs after the jump:
Erik Davis at Sci-Fi Squad reminds us of why this was such a hot property:
the object of the game was to ...
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