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Asteroids Scores with Universal
July 2nd, 2009
A 70s classic video game is about to get the big-screen treatment. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Universal Pictures has won a four-studio bidding war for the rights to the classic 1979 video game, Asteroids for a feature film adaptation.Lorenzo di Bonaventura will produce the feature film, which Matthew Lopez is adapting for the silver screen. While the game, which featured a spaceship that had to shoot down incoming asteroids to avoid collision, did not have a story arc, the studio is used to such projects with the board-game adaptations of Candyland and Sorry already in development.
No production schedule was released for the film.
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Give me a f***ing break!!
Jerks.
How about a game that actually has a story? Like, oh, I don't know...
METROID?!?!?!?!?!?!
I was waiting for that movie to come out for years, then it gets canceled. Then a game like Asteroids gets an adaptation?! What the hell, man?!
The only board games i can see working are Monopoly & Cluedo (Clue)
BUT WTF