Asteroids to Become Blockbuster Hollywood Flick
by Chris Faylor, Jul 02, 2009 9:35am PDTWith the movie rights for Pac-Man and Joust already snapped up, the bidding war for the privilege to adapt Atari's old-school rock-buster Asteriods into a film has come to an end.
Universal won the four-studio competition, according to The Hollywood Reporter, with Lorenzo di Bonaventura (G.I. Joe: Rise of the Cobra) attached as a producer and Jeff Kirschenbaum (Wanted, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World) overseeing. The script is to be written by Race to Witch Mountain (2009) scribe Matthew Lopez.
Also in the works at Universal are four feature film adaptations of classic Hasbro board games, which could result in movies inspired by Battleship, Candyland and Monopoly.
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Pixar needs to take this bad boy on.
They should look to Empire Strikes Back for inspiration.
Hey, if it's successful you can probably look forward to a Wachowski Geometry Wars in the same flashy colorful mold as Speed Racer. Geometry Wars would be pretty rad actually if merely for the comical value.
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-The spaceship pilot
-Asteroids in 3 sizes
-The big UFO
-The sneaky little UFO
-Hyperspace technology
-The ability to seamlessly travel from the left side of the screen to the right side -- instantly!
Memorable line: "Thrust. Thrust. Thrust. NOOOOO! Too much thrust. ARGHHHHHH!"