Studio Exec: "You know, this would make a great movie!"
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 player controlled a triangular space ship 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.
This is from the same guy who produced Race to Witch Mountain, a movie about alien children and Vin Diesel (my mistake, it was The Rock, though I can't really tell the difference between the Arnold clones). Noticing a theme here? Werner Von Braun said that after terrorists come the asteroids, then after that, aliens. This has to be some sort of conditioning thing. Then again, maybe that's what the original "Asteroids" game was in the first place? Either way, I really can't see this being good... I was going to do a post on old arcade games with sync themes sometime. There's a lot of them...
Thought this stuck out:
Lopez came out of Disney's writing program and worked on that studio's recent movies "Bedtime Stories" and "Race to Witch Mountain." He also wrote the most recent draft of "The Sorcerer's Apprentice," currently in production with Nicolas Cage and Jay Baruchel starring.
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