Count von Phoib 0 Report post Posted July 4, 2009 Universal acquires movie rights to Asteroids. 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," initially released as an arcade game in 1979, a player controlled a triangular space ship in an asteroid field. The object was to shoot and destroy the hulking masses of rock and the occasional flying saucer while avoiding smashing into both. As opposed to today's games, there is no story line or fancy world-building mythology, so the studio would be creating a plot from scratch. Universal, however, is used to that development process, as it's in the middle of doing just that for several of the Hasbro board game properties it is translating to the big screen, such as "Battleship" and "Candyland." Wait. Wait. What? A movie about asteroids? :blink: :blink: :blink: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
weston 0 Report post Posted July 4, 2009 Along with Battleship and Candyland. lol. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pratom 0 Report post Posted July 4, 2009 "No suitable nodes are available to serve your request." Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Count von Phoib 0 Report post Posted July 4, 2009 Refresh the site :P Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pratom 0 Report post Posted July 4, 2009 "This is not worth it. This is now an EPIC fail. Link Error 00000001" Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
IconOfEvi 0 Report post Posted July 4, 2009 Epic bidding war :blink:... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pratom 0 Report post Posted July 4, 2009 Don't make me claw you IconOfEvi! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Goose 0 Report post Posted July 5, 2009 They'll be making a monopoly film next. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Korona 0 Report post Posted July 6, 2009 They have such boring and bland concepts for films and then they bleat about how the film companies are being killed piracy?! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Captain Miller 0 Report post Posted July 6, 2009 Come on minesweeper the movie wasn't that bad... http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1770138 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites