hollywoodreporter.com - 7/2/2009
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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 ...
scifisquad.com - 7/2/2009
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Filed under: News/Reactions Hopefully some of you are
old enough to remember the classic Atari video game...
Asteroids , where the object of the game was to navigate this space ship through an asteroid field and shoot down whatever crazy flying object ...
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Asteroids: The Movie
comingsoon.net - 7/2/2009
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Universal has won a four-studio bidding war to
pick up the film rights to the classic Atari...
video game "Asteroids," says The Hollywood Reporter . Matthew Lopez will write the script for the feature adaptation, which will be produced by Lorenzo di ...
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Universal Pictures to Fight Asteroids
filmofilia.com - 7/3/2009
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According to THR, Universal Pictures is bringing the
Atari game Asteroids to the big screen. Universal won...
the bidding war, and assigned Matthew Lopez , who worked on Disney’s Race To Witch Mountain and Bedtime Stories , to write the script while Lorenzo di Boneventura ...
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Asteroids Movie Coming From Universal
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... here. Methinks someone high up at Universal is having a bit of Peter Pan complex. There are worse things for an executive to have, for sure... But this is the studio that's working to bring us Candyland and Battleship and now they've jumped from the board game to the classic arcade game. ASTEROIDS: THE MOVIE. Should have been an '80s movie starring Fred Savage and Lance Guest. Alas, according to Mr. Borys Kitt at Hollywood Reporter we're getting the movie now, with Lorenzo di Bonaventura producing and RACE TO WITCH MOUNTAIN's Matthew Lopez attached to script. Of course ...
Hollywood Inserts Quarter For ‘Asteroids,’ Will Adapt Classic Atari Video Game
MTV Movies Blog —
... News of Hollywood cherry-picking video game franchises for movie adaptations is nothing new, but here’s something that’s a bit more surprising. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the latest game to be slated for the big screen is the action-packed “Asteroids.” ...
Asteroids Arcade Game Adaptation Baffles. Today in Film Bloggery 07/02/09
SpoutBlog —
It’s an appropriate week for Universal to announce they’re making an adaptation of the classic Atari game Asteroids, because chances are the thing will end up opening on a 4th of July weekend. Just like Independence Day and Armageddon. Actually, as far as I can tell a movie of that arcade game could very well be a sequel to Armageddon. Except that Universal won the four-studio bidding war, and Disney did not (I’m unsure if Disney was even ...
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[image] * Classic video game Asteroids is set to become a movie, according to The Holywood Reporter . Universal has won a four-studio bidding war to pick up the film rights to the classic 1979 Atari arcade video game. Thing is, there wasn't exactly a story to Asteroids – you just sat in a triangle blasting away at wirefram polygons. Stupidly addictive as a game but it's going to take some imagination to turn that into a movie? What next? A movie of noughts and crosses? [image] * Samuel L Jackson reveals that he won’t be ...
Game Over: 'Asteroids' Becoming a Movie
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... Now, it will join a diverse and risky collection of consumer products being built at Universal. The Hollywood Reporter says that da U beat three other studios to snag the film rights to Asteroids, which will be written (and to a certain degree, invented out of thin air, by ...
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It seems we’re just going to have to get used to the fact that Hollywood is adapting all sorts of beloved properties from our childhoods - everything from toys , to board games and video games . Today we get the news that Universal has ...
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Video game adaptations will never die, despite what we all might think after the abomination trilogy on the big screen that is Resident Evil. Still taking great advantage of this semi popular genre of sorts, Universal Pictures nabbed itself the ...
ASTEROIDS. ASTEROIDS IS AN EFFING MOVIE NOW.
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The other day in a radio interview the host was asking me about Hollywood’s recent hard on for remakes and stuff that could never be a good movie in a million years. “What’s next?” the host asked me, “A movie about ...
Universal Making a Movie out of Atari's Asteroids Game
firstshowing.net 7/2/2009 —
They're really scraping the bottom of the barrel this time. Universal won a bidding war to pick up the film rights to the classic Atari video game Asteroids that first debuted in 1979. Yep, that very simple, arcade game involving a triangle ...
Asteroids Movie Exclusive
movies.ign.com 7/23/2009 — UK, July 23, 2009 - When Universal announced plans to turn the classic arcade game Asteroids into a movie , there was much head-scratching within the geek community as to what shape a film based on the property's rather slim premise would take. ...
Game Over: 'Asteroids' Becoming a Movie
getthebigpicture.net 7/3/2009 — Thirty years ago, Asteroids was released as a video game, helping usher in the demand for quarters that would continue unabated for about 15 years. Along with Space Invaders , Asteroids was one of the first major arcade games, and it helped put Atari on the map.
Now, it will join a ...
Universal Soldier 3 starts a New Generation
film-book.com 4/24/2009 — Universal Soldier 3 or Universal Soldier: The Next Generation is being filmed starring Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren. If you saw the first Universal Soldier and watched Lundgren’s Sgt. Andrew Scott get diced at the end of the film you may be wondering how he can possibly be in ...
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