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Retro News by Robert Purchese
Atari has given Universal Pictures the nod to create a film based on the Asteroids IP.
Matthew Lopez, writer of Race to Witch Mountain and The Sorcerer's Apprentice, and Lorenzo di Bonaventura - producer of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and GI Joe: The Rise of the Cobra - are confirmed as onboard, writes The Hollywood Reporter.
There are no details on plot or cast, although the licence involves little that the film studio must actually follow - the original arcade game had no plot, just a spaceship and some rocks.
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quantumsheep
06/07/09 @ 07:47
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Didn't the game's designer Ed Logg meet his wife while playing Asteroids?
Surely they have the opportunity to go in a completely unexpected direction and make a Rom-Com??? |
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crazyhorse174
06/07/09 @ 07:57
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I'm sure I'm not the only one reading this now and saying "Wha...?"
Are film studios that desperate these days for ideas for films!? |
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Triggerhappytel
06/07/09 @ 09:00
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I agree with Crazyhorse - what a fucking stupid licence to decide to make into a movie. I'm sure anyone could come up with a better premise than this, and save them the licencing fees in the process.
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Clive Dunn
06/07/09 @ 10:54
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Yes finally, the chance to remake 70's classic "Meteor !"
In a post modernist twist, rather than the US and USSR teaming up to improbably blast the Asteroid, it'll be China, Iran and North Korea. I'm looking forward to the official Peoples Asteroid dance and song. |
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"I've just never understood why they took the much cooler "monsters from hell" idea and turned it into a quaint "genetically mutated chaps on mars" story. "
Monsters from Hell are harder to sell to the 12 year old boys the Doom movie was aimed at. A nice poor alien race that made a mistake is much more palatable for the good clean yank teens than Satan's evil army. The thing I never understand is why an 18 cert game got targeted at teens in the first place, but then not much of ANYTHING Hollywood does makes sense to me anymore Sadly. |
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