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hollywoodreporter.com - 7/2/2009

'Asteroids' lands at Universal

— 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

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hollywoodreporter.com - 7/2/2009

'Asteroids' lands at Universal

— 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

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G.I. Joe

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slashfilm.com - 7/2/2009

Universal To Make Asteroids Movie

— slashfilm.com — 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 ... Universal To Make Asteroids Movie

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An 'Asteroids' movie? Haven't I seen this already?
PopWatch — ... 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 an onslaught by stellar debris? For what it was, Asteroids could be a tense game -- but a movie? And, what's more, a movie that needed underlying rights? Couldn't Universal -- who won that four-way bidding scrum -- just make a movie about noble men and women tasked with blowing up rocks from space without needing a game to base it on? And even ...

bottom of hollywood barrel has been scraped clean...
Oh No They Didn't! — ... to theaters 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 inventing a story for the arcade game, in which a player controling a space ship racks up points by shoots asteroids and flying saucers. Lorenzo di Bonaventura (G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra) will produce. SOURCE: ew.com Gawd, I remember playing this, Ms Pacman, and Space Invaders when I was a ...

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Atari’s ‘Asteroids’ video game is being made into a movie?
In Case You Didn't Know — ... 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 inventing a story for the arcade game, in which a player controlling a space ship racks up points by shoots asteroids and flying saucers. Lorenzo di Bonaventura (G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra) will produce. Source ...

Asteroids: The Movie
Movie Moron — ... have any discernible link to the film they’re eventually going to release…Unless it’s not a straightforward sci-fi movie and it is actually about the game itself, or uses the game as a storytelling device somehow. That’s a stretch but a possibility. More Slumdog than Pirates…What are your thoughts? Will it be a generic sci-fi movie called Asteroids or is their more to it? What Asteroids movie would YOU make? Source: EW