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Universal Making a Movie Out of Atari's Asteroids Game
firstshowing.net - 7/2/2009
Universal Making a Movie Out of Atari's Asteroids Game
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They're really scraping the bottom of the barrel this time. Universal won a bidding war to pick up the film rights to the classic Atari video game Asteroids that first debuted in 1979. Yep, that very simple, arcade game involving a triangle shooting various asteroids. Newcomer Matthew Lopez ...
'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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news-briefs.ew.com - 7/2/2009
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 — ... this idea is (why get into a bidding war when you’re essentially creating the plot from scratch?), but if you were going to adapt an early-80s-era video game into a movie, why not GALAGA? That at least has something to it. Or just take the money that you spent to get “Asteroids” and put it back into BIOSHOCK a movie based on a game that actually has an intriguing storyline… Alex Billington at First Showing is sure most of the other early arcade games will hit theaters in no time: For ...

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