slashfilm.com - 7/2/2009
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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 70’s/80’s. Universal has won a four-studio bidding ...
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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An Asteroids Movie? Really?
Unrealitymag —
... So basically how do we dissect this? Are we going to get some kind of young Star Trek type actor sitting in a ship by himself doing all kinds of spins from one spot yelling at Asteroids?
Then he’ll occasionally go really fast in a diagonal path shooting him off the screen entirely and then all of a sudden coming back on the other side of the screen?
Will we have actors play the asteroids? What the hell is going on here?
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Best Week Ever —
... Universal is planning a feature film adaptation of the Arcade game Asteroids. The movie will be remembered fondly by children from the 80s, but they’ll get bored and switch over to the Q-Bert movie after one quarter. ...
Asteroids Movie Coming To The Big Screen
Screen Rant —
... is probably one of the most harmless. Since there’s no real story to the game, there’s no real story to ruin either. But nonetheless, it’s still irritating to see this Hollywood trend continuing at full speed.
Do you think there is enough there to make a worthwhile Asteroids movie?
Asteroids is currently in the early development stages and no release date has been set as of yet.
Sources: THR and /Film
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