Atari’s Asteroids, the Movie
Keep Uwe Boll away from this, but Asteroids, the video game that is only one year younger than me, it getting a movie made out of Universal! Sure, it has no characters, no plot (besides “Soot them asteroids!”), and no relevance to the modern gamers who didn’t grow up with it, but why stop there?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.
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.
Four studios bid for this crap? How many studios will bid for Centipede? (probably SciFi Channel) How many for Combat? Defender? Qix? Pac-Man? Zaxxon?
The asteroids better be sent to smash into earth from aliens who get shot the crap up by the spaceship dude.
I am just hoping for Yars’ Revenge, the movie!
Categories: Movie News Tags: Asteroids, video game movies
Shadow of the Colossus of the Movie
‘Shadow of the Colossus’ to become a movieBy Steven Zeitchik and Borys Kit
Colo “Shadow of the Colossus” is heading to the big screen.
The colossally popular video game is being developed as a feature by producer Kevin Misher, who has set the project up at Sony; the studio’s sister division Sony Computer Entertainment is behind the video game.
Justin Marks, the go-to young scribe who’s writing “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea” for McG at Disney, is attached to pen the script.
Justin Marks is the bright young lad who wrote the script for Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li that made the film such a rousing success (read: flop) so this is in good hands! From the early reports of the 20,000 Leagues movie, it will be terrible as well (and a prequel!) so expect Colossus to be a colossal pile of elephant feces. Somehow Justin Marks is also penning Suicide Squad (based on the comic book) and an adaption of Hack/Slash and He-Man! Justin Marks needs to be blasted into the sun.
More accurate than anything Justin Marks will vomit onto screens
Categories: Movie News Tags: He-man, Justin Marks, Shadow of the Colossus, video game movies
