Asteroids: The Movie

[The Guard]

How is this anything but win?

 

[Balthus Dire]

My jaw hit the floor when I read this today. I knew Hollywood was out of ideas, but holy crap...Asteroids??

And to think there's probably a vault somewhere jammed full of original screenplays that are amazing, but instead we get......Asteroids. Wow. And I thought "Battleship: The Movie" was dumb.

 

[Sam Fisher]

Didn't Micheal Bay already direct this?

 

[Spidey-Bat]

I want a Tetris movie

 

[GhostPoet]

I hate you Hollywood.

 

[Pink Ranger]

I hate this idea too, but what do you expect? Audiences have made dumb "event" movies profitable by going to see them and buying them on DVD, while avoiding smaller but more meaningful films. The squid-d!ck producers are just following the money.

Hollywood's not getting dumber. We are.

 

[GreenKToo]

You know what sucks? that this crap will prolly be a reasonable hit for them and will encourage them to start a whole group of films just like it.
We can't get a Flash or a decent American Godzilla film but they'll make a dung heap like this. Amazing.

 

[BLACK-SPIDEY]

I want a Tetris movie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE_1KlWFJyA

 

[Sentinel X]

Not only that but I hear Universal wants to make a candyland movie too.Hollywood is truly bankrupt of ideas.

I can see a candyland movie working....believe it or not. Not the best idea but its definitely do-able.


But asteroids???....First of all you can't even watch that game for 2 minutes before you're bored out of your mind and now they're making a movie?

 

[Galactus]

Asteroids Movie Exclusive
Producer reveals plot details and news of the Wheelman movie.
by Chris Tilly, IGN UK

UK, July 23, 2009 - When Universal announced plans to turn the classic arcade game Asteroids into a movie, there was much head-scratching within the geek community as to what shape a film based on the property's rather slim premise would take.

Intrigued by the prospect, IGN exclusively quizzed producer Lornezo di Bonaventura on the subject while he was visiting London to publicize G.I. Joe, and he was extremely forthcoming on the subject.

"It's funny because people say there's nothing in the game, but that's not entirely right" he explained. "I was attracted to Asteroids, plain and simple, because I think what it tells you is that there's going to be this big thing in space."

"We've crafted a really strong, deep mythology for the thing. Without divulging too much about it, it's two lead characters - two brothers - who have to go through a seminal experience to figure out their relationship, against this huge backdrop."

But what of the title's point-and-shoot gameplay? "Well you'd better have some guys in spaceships blowing stuff up" he continued "or else you haven't honoured the fun of Asteroids."

While on the subject of game-to-film adaptation, we also asked the uber-producer about his long-gestating adaptation of Wheelman, to which he responded: "A draft has been handed into Paramount, but they just had a change of management, so everybody is catching up to some of the scripts. We're sort of in that holding period right now."

 

[:eek:]

We were also curious about development on a movie based on the Atari video game Asteroids, because it seemed like one of those oddly impossible concepts to make into a movie:

"I'll tell you what my thought process was," he said about the project in development. "When I was called about the property—I was called because of what I'd done with 'Transformers' and 'G.I. Joe,' Atari reached out to me and said, 'We have Asteroids,' and I had an immediate reaction 'Yes.' The reason was not because playing the game, we thought somehow that game could be translated into a movie, it can't. The word 'Asteroids' connotates a large-scale experience, so the challenge, which was great, was 'Okay, so how do you get a mythology that will support that?" We really went after a mythology on the level of 'Star Wars' and we'll see if we succeeded or not but it's not a simple thing of the asteroids are going to hit the earth. We never come to earth. The entire movie takes place in the asteroid field. We do some homages to the game for sure, but I like the sense of scale."

He also promised that we'll finally discover who the aliens are that are flying those little UFOs attacking our hero.

 

[Marx]

This is absolutely ridiculous. I guess this means we can expect Frogger, Defender, and Pong next, right?

 

[Ipodman]

Didn't Micheal Bay already direct this?

lol

 

[:eek:]

In "Invasion of the Space Invaders," his long out-of-print 1982 book about the arcade video game phenomenon of the era (which kicks off with an introduction by Steven Spielberg), novelist Martin Amis described the gameplay of the seminal 1979 title Asteroids in an extraordinary way.
"Don't go mad and reduce the whole screen to rubble," wrote the book's improbable author. "You'll find yourself dodging bricks, and will be stoned to death like an Iranian rapist."
It's too soon to tell whether that impressive quote will be the tagline of Universal's possible upcoming adaptation of the hugely successful vector-graphics Atari game about an almost sad-looking spaceship stuck in an asteroid field teeming with hostile UFOs.
But we do know this: Roland Emmerich may direct it.
According to Vulture, Universal has offered the job to Emmerich, who directed the disaster flicks "Independence Day" and "2012." The company won a bidding war in 2009 for the rights to turn the quarter-sucking classic into a movie and are developing the film with "Transformers: Dark Side of the Moon" producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura.

 

[MOVIELORD101]

In "Invasion of the Space Invaders," his long out-of-print 1982 book about the arcade video game phenomenon of the era (which kicks off with an introduction by Steven Spielberg), novelist Martin Amis described the gameplay of the seminal 1979 title Asteroids in an extraordinary way.
"Don't go mad and reduce the whole screen to rubble," wrote the book's improbable author. "You'll find yourself dodging bricks, and will be stoned to death like an Iranian rapist."
It's too soon to tell whether that impressive quote will be the tagline of Universal's possible upcoming adaptation of the hugely successful vector-graphics Atari game about an almost sad-looking spaceship stuck in an asteroid field teeming with hostile UFOs.
But we do know this: Roland Emmerich may direct it.
According to Vulture, Universal has offered the job to Emmerich, who directed the disaster flicks "Independence Day" and "2012." The company won a bidding war in 2009 for the rights to turn the quarter-sucking classic into a movie and are developing the film with "Transformers: Dark Side of the Moon" producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura.

Roland Emmerich doing a VIDEO GAME MOVIE?!

[YT]umDr0mPuyQc[/YT]

 

[:eek:]

After some back and forth on Roland Emmerich's participationhttp://movies.ign.com/articles/117/1179744p1.html in the game-to-film adaptation of Asteroids, the disaster master has now officially bowed out of the project. He has instead decided to move forward on another sci-fi film, Singularity.

"I was very honored that they wanted to have me as a director," Emmerich said. "I kind of liked the script very much, but at that time I was writing with my writing partner Harold Kloser on a new script called Singularity, and I opted for that."

Colliderhttp://collider.com/roland-emmerich-asteroids-singularity-interview/114370/ reports that Emmerich wants to take a slightly different route with Singularity, noting that the disaster genre is starting to feel a little played out. With this film, it's a completely new idea and something that he claims we've never seen before.

"It takes place in the future 40 years from now," says Emmerich. "It's like kind of this moment where computer technology is so advanced that we kind of -- it's the danger of losing control."

Singularity is currently scheduled to begin filming in March

 

[Asteroid-Man]

Considering it's my bio-pic, I feel like I should have some say as to who directs it...

 

[Ultra Lantern]

This might be a good movie.Asteroid-Man must star in it.He also needs to be in the sequel,Delux Asteroids.

I want a Space Invaders movie,too!

Seriously,I might see Asteroids when the movie comes out.

 

[:eek:]

Universal's planned big screen version of the classic video game Asteroids is still in development despite Roland Emmerich recently passing on directing it.

The Hollywood Reporter says screenwriter Evan Spiliotopoulos (Snow White and the Huntsman, Battle for Terra, Pooh's Heffalump Movie) has been tapped to script the project for producers Lorenzo di Bonaventura and David Foster.

"The plotline for the film adaptation has evolved into the story of two estranged brothers that must team up to save Earth from an alien race," according to THR.

 

[Thundercrack85]

I guess Hollywood ran out of comic books to adapt.

 

[:eek:]

Asteroids Gets a New Writer

Source: Variety
November 15, 2012



Variety reports that the Universal Pictures adaptation of the popular '70s Atari video game Asteroids has gotten a new writer in Jez Butterworth, who wrote the screenplay for Doug Liman's Fair Game, the epic The Last Legion, as well as directed Nicole Kidman's Birthday Girl. More recently, Butterworth has written a James Brown biopic for The Help director Tate Taylor.

Produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura, the man behind three "Transformers" movies and two based on "G.I. Joe," earlier versions of the project were written by Matt Lopez and Evan Spiliotopoulos, but with vintage video games being very much in the public consciousness right now thanks to the success of Disney's Wreck-It Ralph, it makes sense Universal might want to try to get this long-in-development project moving forward.

This Asteroids news joins a spate of other recent news about video game projects including Assassin's Creed and Splinter Cell.

 

[:eek:]

"Asteroids" Movie The Next Star Wars?

By Garth Franklin Sunday June 23rd 2013 11:10PM
Out doing promotional rounds for "RED 2," producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura says that the proposed film based on the classic arcade game "Asteroids" is still very much on the table.
As previously indicated, the story follows two estranged brothers who are forced to team up to save Earth from invading aliens. Now, in a video interview for Screen Rant, di Bonaventura reveals a few more details:

"Really, Asteroids is the one we’re spending our time on now. The truth is, I love the title… when I look at that project, that’s what I think about it, is I think about the scale of it and I think about the possibility of it.
It’s not a disaster movie. If we’re successful at getting it made. It’s much more of a space opera. It’s like a great sci-fi movie if we get it done right.
It is not at all what people think it is. People think, ‘Oh, the asteroid’s gonna hit the earth,’ and I have no interest in doing that. That’s been done exceedingly well before. No, this takes place in an asteroid belt, the whole movie.
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[Asteroid-Man]

Considering it's my bio-pic, I feel like I should have some say as to who directs it...

This might be a good movie.Asteroid-Man must star in it.He also needs to be in the sequel,Delux Asteroids.

I want a Space Invaders movie,too!

Seriously,I might see Asteroids when the movie comes out.

I'm usually hesitant about signing a multi-picture deal. What if the first one does REALLY well and I get screwed over on my contract for part 2?

Asteroids Gets a New Writer

Source: Variety
November 15, 2012



Variety reports that the Universal Pictures adaptation of the popular '70s Atari video game Asteroids has gotten a new writer in Jez Butterworth, who wrote the screenplay for Doug Liman's Fair Game, the epic The Last Legion, as well as directed Nicole Kidman's Birthday Girl. More recently, Butterworth has written a James Brown biopic for The Help director Tate Taylor.

Produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura, the man behind three "Transformers" movies and two based on "G.I. Joe," earlier versions of the project were written by Matt Lopez and Evan Spiliotopoulos, but with vintage video games being very much in the public consciousness right now thanks to the success of Disney's Wreck-It Ralph, it makes sense Universal might want to try to get this long-in-development project moving forward.

This Asteroids news joins a spate of other recent news about video game projects including Assassin's Creed and Splinter Cell.

Assassin's Creed and Splinter Cell both have legitimate stories and the films are being tackled by the game dev's.

"Asteroids" Movie The Next Star Wars?

By Garth Franklin Sunday June 23rd 2013 11:10PM
Out doing promotional rounds for "RED 2," producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura says that the proposed film based on the classic arcade game "Asteroids" is still very much on the table.
As previously indicated, the story follows two estranged brothers who are forced to team up to save Earth from invading aliens. Now, in a video interview for Screen Rant, di Bonaventura reveals a few more details:

"Really, Asteroids is the one we’re spending our time on now. The truth is, I love the title… when I look at that project, that’s what I think about it, is I think about the scale of it and I think about the possibility of it.
It’s not a disaster movie. If we’re successful at getting it made. It’s much more of a space opera. It’s like a great sci-fi movie if we get it done right.
It is not at all what people think it is. People think, ‘Oh, the asteroid’s gonna hit the earth,’ and I have no interest in doing that. That’s been done exceedingly well before. No, this takes place in an asteroid belt, the whole movie.
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I haven't received the script yet. Hopefully they don't make me seem like Han Solo, and more like Luke Skywalker.

 

[Gambit]

I want......pong the movie!

 

[Octoberist]

When someone announces something's the next Star Wars, it's not a compliment or a prediction; it's a bad omen that curses the film.

Star Wars isn't the Star Wars due to one thing. It was an anomoly that came out with the right talent, at the right time, and for the right generation. You can't predict anything like it because it strive on the unpredictable; there's no magic formula here just the act of The Force.