Jul 2, 2009 by Brian Gallagher

Asteroids Scores with Universal

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.


Sources: The Hollywood Reporter

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Comments (11)

  1. Guardian

    ASTEROIDS? a movie? I don't see it as a movie.

    3 years agoby @guardian117Flag

  2. sirmetro

    ...and one more thing F*CK!!!!!!!!!!

    3 years agoby @sirmetroFlag

  3. sirmetro

    mindf*ck? or these guyz are on crack i suppose. And to think Universal,one of the worlds biggest,is involved. This is the time for Bollywood to take the crown from Hollywoods soiled ass.

    3 years agoby @sirmetroFlag

  4. Shelley

    How about Pong and Twister?

    3 years agoby @shelleyFlag

  5. reelmein

    really a bidding war over this ???

    3 years agoby @reelmeinFlag

  6. Psycho

    Pointless movie. What is it going to be about? Some kid playing the damn game or wait I got a better one, shove that sh*tty movie up Universal's ass.

    3 years agoby @physco-123Flag

  7. ollie-styrene

    whats next,... Packman!!!!?????

    Give me a f***ing break!!

    3 years agoby @ollie-styreneFlag

  8. LEO: Lord Epsilon Omega

    Asteroids? Seriously? Why don't you make a game based on centipede while you're at it?
    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?!

    3 years agoby @epsalonFlag

  9. renodc

    I don't know if this continues to be a sign that Hollywood is completely out of ideas, or if this is more a sign of Hollywood understanding that today's generation of moviegoers are just a bunch of brainless s%$theads, who will pay top dollar for this kind of crap.

    3 years agoby @renodcFlag

  10. J.A.Ottley.Writer / Director

    LMAO, well i guess this could work without being a complete rip off to Deep Impact & Armageddon.

    The only board games i can see working are Monopoly & Cluedo (Clue)

    BUT WTF

    3 years agoby @chronicFlag

  11. Drewski37

    Oh come on,if they are going to keep TRYING to makemovies from game ideas, COME ON MAKE A DAMN GOOD MOVIE FROM DUNGEON AND DRAGONS! THERE ARE PLENTY OF DAMN GOOD STORIES OUT, Boardgames pretty pathetic! what a bunch of jackasses!

    3 years agoby @drewski37Flag

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