According to The Hollywood Reporter, Universal won a bidding war for the big-screen rights to the classic 1979 Atari game Asteroids. Writer Matthew Lopez, who recently worked on Disney's Bedtime Stories and Race to Witch Mountain, has the task of inventing a story for the arcade game, in which a player controling a space ship racks up points by shoots asteroids and flying saucers. Lorenzo di Bonaventura (G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra) will produce.
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are you seriously saying that they are trying to make a movie about a game that had no plot whats so ever.
Tired of Hollywood trying to make money of old titles from stuff that should just be left alone. Then they wonder why people complain and don’t want to spend money on films when they put out or think about putting out crap like this.
Remember how bad Mario Brothers was, and for a game of that time, it had a plot.
Of all the dumb lame movie ideas- this takes the cake. Congratulations. There is officially no one with imagination left in Hollywood.
Great idea. I heard that Warner Bros. is going to do Centipede. It’s the perfect movie experience. The more popcorn you eat, the longer the movie gets.
That was all they could scrape out of the bottom of the barrel? Well, at least a 2-dimensional video game should have plenty of work for 1-dimensional actors.