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Universal Pictures to Make Asteroids Movie

The Hollywood Reporter says Universal has won a bidding war for the rights to the Atari game Asteroids. Asteroids simply involves trying to destroy asteroids before they crash into your ship. There are also flying saucers that you must destroy or they will shoot you instead. Other than that there is no plot so the film is going to need a good script.

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.

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, however, is used to that development process, as it's in the middle of doing just that for several of the Hasbro board game properties it is translating to the big screen, such as "Battleship" and "Candyland."

Screenwriter Matthew Lopez will have to get creative to make this film work.

Posted on July 6, 2009

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