Asteroids: The Movie

I think Hollywood are possibly scraping the bottom of the barrel with this one.

In fact I think they've scraped through the barrel, and into a second, shit-filled barrel underneath.

http://filmdrunk.uproxx.com/2009/07/asteroids-arcade-game-movie

hopefully it's a comedy.

  On 7/3/2009 at 11:53 AM, Gary C said:

AAAAHAHAA!

I misread and thought there was gonna be an Arkanoid film coming out....

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Universal 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, which will be produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura.

 

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Di Bonaventura's next outing is "G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra," which Paramount is set to open Aug. 7.

 

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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.

God, that's pathetic.

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[Lopez recently worked Bedtime Stories and wrote the latest draft of The Sorcerer's Apprentice, while Di Bonaventura bears responsibility for G.I. Joe.]

yup sounds like a winnar

this just in: Asteroids movie is no longer the dumbest concept in Hollywood...may I present...

VIEW-MASTER: THE MOVIE

OH YES

http://www.comingsoo...ws.php?id=56857

needs more facepalm, I think

the comments on the asteroids movie article are great

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My dad’s got this movie. Can’t even sit on the toilet somedays.

really, i think they're trying to capitalize on 80s nostalgia more than asteroids or viewthingies

horace goes skiing movie or gtfo

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Despite the fact that video game-inspired films have not yet attained either critical or financial success, the film industry still believes in them enough to invest some serious cash in upcoming game-based projects. Producer Steven Paul, who has brought movie audiences recent gems such as Ghost Rider and Bratz, announced that his production company, Crystal Sky Pictures, has managed to bring in $200 million to help fund five films. These include Castlevania, an unnamed sequel to Hard Boiled (which inspired John Woo's Stranglehold), and a celluloid version of Pac-Man.

 

Despite Pac-Man's rich history in both video games and television, this movie is going to be a complete re-imagining of the franchise. An insider has leaked the the plot outline of film to us: P'ak, a powerful warrior from a different reality, is banished to our version of Earth by a traitorous general bent on usurping the throne of P'ak's world.

 

Stuck on our planet, P'ak ends up befriending quantum physicist Ernest and his young daughter, as well as developing a romantic entanglement with tribal tattoo artist Pepper. The three eventually help our hero return home, where he ends up saving the day and then bringing Pepper across the dimensional barrier to live happily ever after with him. Apparently, the P'ak is going to be a ripped guy for most of the movie, but his ceremonial armor will be a a close approximation to the round body we know from the video games; "it'll look kind of like those aliens from the beginning of The Fifth Element."

lol, that has got to be a joke, right?

edit: why can't i quote that post?

I thought the pac man thing was a joke but given that the first two in this thread completely appeared to be jokes but weren't I'm going to go with wtf.

Seriously asteroids? Pac-Man? VIEWMASTER???? Does hollywood not realize that there are literally thousands of games between that era and now that actually HAD a storyline that would work as a movie.

the president has been kidnapped by ninjas....

the Pac-Man movie was refrenced on a couple other pages but it doesn't have an IMDB yet so who knows

Castlevania could be good but they'll fuck it up

Check it out, a trailer for