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Asteroids video game to be made into a film?

Discussion in 'TV, Music and Movies' started by Jaydog57, Jul 3, 2009.

  1. Jaydog57

    Jaydog57 Canes/Fins/Magic fan

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    I predict a really bad storyline with lots of cool CGI stuff.:shifty:

    "Universal Pictures 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.

    In "Asteroids," originally released as an arcade game in 1979, a player controlled a triangular spaceship 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."

    http://movies.yahoo.com/news/movies.reuters.com/quotasteroidsquot-lands-universal-reuters
     
  2. DaFish

    DaFish Well-Known Member

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    That's just ******ed. How can you make a movie from that game?
     
  3. Jaydog57

    Jaydog57 Canes/Fins/Magic fan

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    yeah, it should at least be a game that already has a storyline. They might as well make a movie about Pong. :rolleyes:
     
  4. Fin D

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