Universal studios has just bought the rights to produce a film based on the classic Atari game, Asteroids. I'm going to repeat that sentence, just so you know I typed it, with more emphasis:
Universal Studios has just bought the rights to produce a film based on the classic Atari game, Asteroids.
On the bright side, there's no story to Asteroids for them to screw up. Really, all they need to do is have a triangular ship breaking apart rocks in space to stay true to the source material. Even now, I can see the cheesy "tribute" placed in the flick where the plucky crew of astronauts look in horror at a radar screen using the graphics from the game.
The fact that a film about Asteroids isn't even the most ridiculous part of this story, either. The Hollywood Reporter says that four film studios were engaged in a bidding war for the property. I don't even know quite how to react to that this early in the morning.
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Contest:
10:20 AM on 07.02.2009
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WAHT DA HEOOL?
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I usually take a few shots of Maker's and laugh.
Next up: Centipede.
What.
The.
Fuck.
and since we're doing this. I want to see Burger Time: The Movie
If they filmed 1 and a half hour of Asteroids gameplay and than use it as the film it would be a lot better.
PS: WTFWFJD?!??!?
Hollywood is teh LOLz
I want an Event Horizon 2: Asteroids. =D
I guarantee it.
I just can't figure it out.
An ASTEROIDS Movie?
I...I think my brain just shit itself.
MY entire world just broke.
The stuff of truly great movies. I don't know if I'm taking the piss or actually believe that. :0
Keanu Reeves plays a troubled man who sets off on his own (in his incredibly angular spaceship) on a self fulfilling journey... Until he gets caught in an asteroid belt.
Also, he has a dog that he talks to that way we can hear his thoughts without any cheesy voice over effects.