"Asteroids" movie update...

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Roland Emmerich May Direct the Movie Version of Asteroids

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Two Julys ago, Universal Pictures won a four-way bidding war for the rights to turn Atari's 1979 hit arcade game Asteroids into a feature film. How do you take a game about a capital letter A floating about aimlessly in deep space shooting decimal points (or are they periods?) at large, frozen rocks and flying saucers and turn it into a movie? Well, Universal's trying to hire director of destruction Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow, 2012).

Vulture hears that Asteroids has just been offered to Emmerich by Universal, which is developing the feature film with Transformers: Dark of the Moon producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura. The script comes from Matt Lopez, best known for writing Disney's The Race to Witch Mountain (a movie which, for those concerned with verisimilitude, does contain flying saucers).

Now, wait. We already know what you're thinking: Doesn't even thinking about directing this violate Emmerich's self-proclaimed ban on making any more movies showing the destruction of Earth? Ah, but hold! Our spies tell us that, technically, no, it does not, because Asteroids is actually set after the destruction of Earth!

We're told it's an ersatz sequel to world-ending Emmerich films like Independence Day and 2012, but one in which the aliens have won. The remnants of human civilization are now living on far-flung colonies within an asteroid belt alongside aliens. The survivors were led to believe that this alien civilization was benevolent, rescuing them from doom, but ultimately discover that the aliens have engineered Earth's destruction, and soon will do the same for the rest of humankind.

http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2011/06/roland_emmerich_has_been_offer.html?_r=true
 
We're told it's an ersatz sequel to world-ending Emmerich films like Independence Day and 2012, but one in which the aliens have won. The remnants of human civilization are now living on far-flung colonies within an asteroid belt alongside aliens. The survivors were led to believe that this alien civilization was benevolent, rescuing them from doom, but ultimately discover that the aliens have engineered Earth's destruction, and soon will do the same for the rest of humankind.

So, the movie will have nothing to do with the game. OK, I'm cool with that.

In fact, it seems to me that they could label any just about any Space Movie "Asteroids" and have it fit perfectly fine with the game, because the game itself brings nothing to the table. No plot, no story, no characters, no nothing.

Any story created that features a space ship that has to shoot an Asteroid would work. Heck, Star Wars could be "Asteroids: The Movie". Lucas just fleshed out the backstory of how the Millennium Falcon got into that Asteroid field, and what happened afterwards.
 
I wonder if the hero of the movie will hide in the scoreboard in order to attack the alien warship and save the day.
 
because the game itself brings nothing to the table. No plot, no story, no characters, no nothing.
Not entirely true... back in the 80's atari released a bunch of story books for their games, including Asteroids...
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So in my opinion, if it doesn't follow this story arc, it's not really an "Asteroids" movie ;)

In case you were wondering, here's the story summary:

"While on a routine mission, the Cosmic Space Patrol ship, Intrepid, is trapped in a time-warp and is rocketed into the past! It's up to Captain Jim Stanton and his computer sidekick, Chip Brain, to find their way back to safety. Blast off for adventure with Atari's Asteroids!"

Sounds like a blockbuster to me :D
 
Not entirely true... back in the 80's atari released a bunch of story books for their games, including Asteroids...
asteroidscassto4.jpg


So in my opinion, if it doesn't follow this story arc, it's not really an "Asteroids" movie ;)

In case you were wondering, here's the story summary:

"While on a routine mission, the Cosmic Space Patrol ship, Intrepid, is trapped in a time-warp and is rocketed into the past! It's up to Captain Jim Stanton and his computer sidekick, Chip Brain, to find their way back to safety. Blast off for adventure with Atari's Asteroids!"

Sounds like a blockbuster to me :D

That's more of a plot than the Transformers movie. Ba da bing!
 
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