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Movie Based On Asteroids Game Will Boggle Your Mind [Development Deal]
io9.com - 7/2/2009
Movie Based On Asteroids Game Will Boggle Your Mind [Development Deal]
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Though Hollywood excels in making plotless movies, the sale of Asteroids to Universal breaks new ground. The people who are bringing you GI Joe this month are about to make a movie about a triangle shooting a bunch of blobs. Anyone who is a fan of classic video games knows the familiar story ...
'Asteroids' lands at Universal
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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'Asteroids' lands at Universal
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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Atari's 'Asteroids' heads to theaters | TV, movie and music news | Games, Movie biz, Movies, News
— 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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Asteroids Arcade Game Adaptation Baffles. Today in Film Bloggery 07/02/09
SpoutBlog — ... Annalee Newitz at i09 wonders what the game’s plot was originally and suggests a great idea for a mash-up: ...

10 Video-Game Movies You'll See Before Halo [Video-game Movies]
io9 — ... Who's in? It was just announced that Lorenzo di Bonaventura (G.I. Joe) will be producing, with a screenplay by Matthew Lopez (Race To Witch Mountain.) No director or stars yet. (Insert your own joke about various Hollywood stars who could play convincing chunks of space rock.) ...

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