Universal Making a Movie Out of Atari's Asteroids Game

Asteroids

Game » consists of 22 releases. Released on October 1979

Atari's bestselling game of all time, Asteroids was one of the most influential releases of the Golden Age of Arcade Games. One of the first space shooters, it was the inspiration for many of the dual stick shooter games of the modern era, Geometry Wars chief among them.

Universal Making a Movie Out of Atari's Asteroids Game

Posted by Hector (3204 posts) - 3 years, 10 months ago

http://www.firstshowing.net/2009/07/02/universal-making-a-movie-out-of-ataris-asteroids-game/

Are they freaking serious?

#1 Posted by Hector (3204 posts) - 3 years, 10 months ago

http://www.firstshowing.net/2009/07/02/universal-making-a-movie-out-of-ataris-asteroids-game/

Are they freaking serious?

#2 Posted by VWGTI (1915 posts) - 3 years, 10 months ago

Wait for it..............................

FAIL

#3 Posted by MattyFTM (13814 posts) - 3 years, 10 months ago

I won't immediately dismiss the movie. Asteroids lack of storyline leaves plenty room for artistic license, and who knows, the movie could be good. However, the concept itself is dumb. They might as well make a movie about shooting asteroids that isn't based on the game. It would be no different.

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#4 Edited by PenguinDust (12102 posts) - 3 years, 10 months ago

There was a damned good movie made years ago called Outland starring Sean Connery which took place on an asteroid, and there is an anime called Mighty Space Miners with a similar setting so films about asteroids are not unheard of. Plus, there are all the Armageddon and Deep Impact disaster movies. I think someone could make a movie about mining asteroids in space by blasting them into smaller pieces and hauling off the chunks for processing. Toss in a few pissed off saucer-aliens and Megan Fox and you've got a summer hit.