11/16/2012: "Asteroids" movie gets a writer

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11/16/2012: "Asteroids" movie gets a writer

I still have a hard time believing this is gonna get made. But they're certainly going through the motions...

http://wegotthiscovered.com/movies/asteroids-movie-writer-jez-butterworth/?_r=true

That Asteroids Movie Gets Its Writer In Jez Butterworth

Posted November 16, 2012 by T.J. Barnard in News

You'd hoped that it might've moved away from our atmosphere and threatened a stupider and more gullible planet with its obvious screen adaptability, but the Asteroids movie has gone and got itself into a slingshot orbit and has fired itself right back at us. And emerging from his farmhouse on a foggy night to investigate a smoking hole in the ground is writer Jez Butterworth, who may or may not have been taken over by an alien parasite, given that he's said "Yes, I'll write that" whilst also keeping a straight face.

Asteroids, of course, is a video game from the 70s that pits you, the player, against hundreds of white-lined rock shapes as they attempt to steer themselves into you and ruin your day. There's obvious untapped potential in this idea (obviously) – so much so that the presumed 100-page screenplay should only take a few hours to write. All Butterworth has to do is scribble down what the game is telling him and put the pages in order. What we're expecting, however, is for this to turn out a lot like Battleship, given that both of these properties are a) things that do not sound like films when you pitch them and b) things that exist mainly for CGI to do all the work.

Rihanna can turn up in this one too, maybe, perhaps as one of those UFOs goes by and tries to zap you. Something about intergalactic peace or how we should all get along in space. "We Found Love In A Hopeless Space." You hear that, Rihanna? I'm doing your job for you. Again.

Source: The A.V. Club
 
This would be awesome, another movie about classic gaming!!! How cool would it be to own a real Asteroids?! Now all I have to do is find a DK cab to convert...



:)
 
This would be awesome, another movie about classic gaming!!! How cool would it be to own a real Asteroids?! Now all I have to do is find a DK cab to convert...



:)

You mean Lunar Landers... the cab is the same profile, and you can cut a new CP out of MDF and inkjet out the sideart and glue it on, after of course peeling/scraping off the rest. Then you'll have your own authentic Asteroids game.

Of course you'll need to rip out the 19V2000/G05 and all the wiring and toss it in the dump, pop in a 23" wide screen LCD, and pop in a iPhone and hack something up to control the convex buttons on the panel. But you'll have that authentic gaming experience as depicted in the movie.
 
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great, if the movie is successful, the value of asteroids arcade games goes up!
 
The premise sounds lame but so did Battleship, which was much better than I expected. Though I still didn't see the connection between the movie and the game.
 
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