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hollywoodreporter.com - 7/2/2009

'Asteroids' lands at Universal

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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 ...

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scificool.com - 7/2/2009

Asteroids — The Movie?

— scificool.com — From the same people who are intent on giving you big-screen movies based on the games “Battleship”... and “Candyland” (yes, a movie based on the board game “Candyland”), now comes a movie based on the old arcade game … “Asteroids”. Yes, ... (more) Asteroids — The Movie?

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screenhead.com - 7/2/2009

‘Asteroids’ in Development at Universal

— screenhead.com — Amazing! I remember playing this game as a kid and can’t believe that a story will actually... come from this simple Atari video game. It looks like it will happen because Universal has won a four-studio bidding war to pick up the film rights to ... (more) ‘Asteroids’ in Development at Universal

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blog.fph.co.uk - 7/4/2009

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— blog.fph.co.uk — * 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 ... (more) Friday Link-A-Mania

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Movie Based On Asteroids Game Will Boggle Your Mind [Why Oh Why]
io9 — ... will be developing this story from scratch. Hollywood Reporter notes: Universal . . . is used to that development process, as it's in the middle of doing just that for several of the Hasbro board game properties it is translating to the big screen, such as "Battleship" and "Candyland." Couldn't they just combine Battleship with Asteroids so we could have a plotless tale of shooting that spanned skies and sea? Doesn't that sound awesome? via Hollywood Reporter ...

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SFX — [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 ...

Orci and Kurtzman To Produce Movie Based On View-Master Toy (Really!)
TrekMovie.com — ... and the Asteroids Videogame seem much more plausible. Kane gave a bit of a hint of the direction for the film on Twitter over the weekend, saying he wants the movie to be "like the old ’80s Amblin movies: ‘Goonies,’ ‘Young Sherlock’ … in that vein", which is similar to comments made by Orci and Kurtzman regarding the movie about MMORPG players they are making with Masi Oka ( ...