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CaptHayfever
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by CaptHayfever » Sun Jul 05, 2009 12:50 am
I kid you not.
'Asteroids' lands at Universal (Reuters) - Yahoo! Movies
"Asteroids" lands at Universal (Reuters)Source: Reuters Thu Jul 02, 2009, 9:34 pm EDT
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Universal Pictures 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.
In "Asteroids," originally released as an arcade game in 1979, a player controlled a triangular spaceship 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.
As opposed to today's games, there is no story line or fancy world-building mythology, so the studio would be creating a plot from scratch. Universal is familiar with such a development process: It's in the middle of doing just that for several of the Hasbro board-game properties it's translating to the big screen, among them "Battleship" and "Candyland."
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.
(Editing by Sheri Linden at Reuters)
And remember, "I'm-a Luigi, number one!"
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Calamity Panfan
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by Calamity Panfan » Sun Jul 05, 2009 2:02 am
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
APRIL FOOLS GUYS
RIGHT? RIGHT?
and that's the waaaaaaaaaay the news goes
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by X-3 » Sun Jul 05, 2009 11:38 am
WE GOTTA DESTROY THOSE ASTEROIDS
THEIR FLOATING AROUND MAKES ME SICK
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Calamity Panfan
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by Calamity Panfan » Sun Jul 05, 2009 11:57 am
At least you can make plots for other bad movie ideas like Stretch Armstrong. How do you make a storyline about asteroids other than the fact that there are asteroids in space?
and that's the waaaaaaaaaay the news goes
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Deepfake
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by Deepfake » Mon Jul 06, 2009 7:21 am
WTF
CENTIPEDE WOULD'VE BEEN SUCH AN AWESOME MOVIE
Oh, sorry. I meant to say "Yay! Finally, a sequel to [strike]Wing Commander[/strike]Armageddon!"
I muttered 'light as a board, stiff as a feather' for 2 days straight and now I've ascended, ;aughing at olympus and zeus is crying
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by Greenmarioman » Mon Jul 06, 2009 8:07 pm
Tazy Ten wrote:.....what?
vgfian wrote:Ye- uhh... Well, E- uuhhh...
What?
Valigarmander wrote:Uhhhh.
Huh.
Err
ツ
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by Spritedude » Thu Jul 09, 2009 3:33 am
Wow, next thing you know they'll be making a Minesweeper movie. Oh, wait...
[video]LHY8NKj3RKs[/video]
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by t3hDarkness » Thu Jul 09, 2009 3:51 am
At least its not Uwe Boll.
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Demonicus Prime
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by Demonicus Prime » Thu Jul 09, 2009 12:52 pm
Transformers, Transformers 2, GI Joe, and now this?
When in Rome, do as the Romans do.
So.....
What happens when Romans feel out of place?
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by Apiary Tazy » Thu Jul 09, 2009 1:19 pm
Also.
Battleship and Candyland movies?
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t3hDarkness
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by t3hDarkness » Fri Jul 10, 2009 12:10 am
Demonicus Prime wrote:Transformers, Transformers 2, GI Joe, and now this?
I'm pretending GI Joe will be good even if it isn't.
