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Re: Universal Pictures Wins Rights To Asteroids

mentaldisorder — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:00:46 GMT

Crisis Causer:

I already know it will be better than the Super Mario Bros movie.

Oh god, not that movie!

Re: Universal Pictures Wins Rights To Asteroids

Dev — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:00:16 GMT

I could imagine a documentary on early video games but a movie with a plot!

Re: Universal Pictures Wins Rights To Asteroids

Crisis Causer — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 22:22:33 GMT

I already know it will be better than the Super Mario Bros movie.

RE: Universal Pictures Wins Rights To Asteroids

3vi1 — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 17:15:59 GMT

ROFL!

RE: Universal Pictures Wins Rights To Asteroids

Dave_HH — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:17:12 GMT

Come on man! Where's your imagination! That's some serious special effects we could work on the screen! Just think, black, white, LINES... oh man! It'll be HUGE.

RE: Universal Pictures Wins Rights To Asteroids

3vi1 — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:28:48 GMT

>> Lopez came from Disney's writing program.

Oh crap... look for a wisecracking droid to banter with the ship AI / straight man.

RE: Universal Pictures Wins Rights To Asteroids

3vi1 — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:23:24 GMT

Disclaimer: Love the game and used to play it all the time.

RE: Universal Pictures Wins Rights To Asteroids

3vi1 — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:22:45 GMT

Uhmmm... lil' bit late?

The videogame has enough material for a nail-biting 8-minute scenario... trumped by the sequence we already saw when the Enterprise used the gravity of that asteroid to slingshot itself out of the field.

I can't believe that they would call the movie "Asteroids", as people might think it's a sequel to "Asteroid", nor can I think of anything they gain from the "story" that would have been deemed plagiarism. So what did they get?

i.e. I would immediately fire the person from my studio responsible for the bidding.

Universal Pictures Wins Rights To Asteroids

News — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:58:47 GMT

A four-studio bidding war has ended and Universal Pictures has won the film rights to the classic Atari video game "Asteroids." Asteroids was originally released as an arcade game in 1979. In the game, players control a triangular spaceship as they attempt to shoot and destroy masses of rock and an occasional flying saucer while avoiding running into either obstruction.

Unlike today’s games, Asteroids lacks a story line or fancy world-building mythology so Universal Pictures must create a plot from scratch. The studio isn’t new to this process: It’s currently in the middle of creating plots for several popular board games from Hasbro including Battleship and Candyland.

Matthew Lopez will write the script for the adaptation of the game to the big screen. Lopez came from Disney's writing program. He has worked on recent movies such as "Bedtime Stories" and "Race to Witch Mountain." He also wrote the most recent draft of "The Sorcerer's Apprentice," which is currently being produced and stars Nicolas Cage and Jay Baruchel.