Asteroids - The Movie

I can see it know... it'll become the next Hollywood franchise. Here's how I see this playing out.

The Asteroids movie will focus on the efforts of one man, a disgraced and discharged military pilot who dabbles in rocket technology in his garage. Somehow, he looks through a telescope at the right time and sees hundreds of Asteroids heading to Earth.

Of course, because he is a DISGRACED and DISCHARGED military pilot, his efforts to warn local, state and federal governments, the military, and NASA are all rebuked and ignored, because our hero can't POSSIBLY be right. Along the way, he is also dealing with the imminent collapse of his marriage to the love of his life due to demon alcohol, and the loss of respect from his teenage daughter.

So, he buries himself in his garage, devoting all his time to developing a one-man rocket ship with outstanding maneuverability, a powerful laser cannon, and an experimental offensive capability known as "Hyperspace". It's never been tested before, but it looks good on paper!

Eventually, on the very night his wife leaves him, and his daughter tells him to "F off", he launches his rocket from a nearby abandoned field, manages to survive the trip into space, and destroys all the hurtling asteroids himself! Eventually, he comes to find out that this was no natural phenomenon, as the asteroids were being controlled by a set of alien spacecraft, advanced scouts of a force trying to determine how easy it will be to invade/obliterate Earth for an as-yet undetermined reason. Our hero finds himself being advanced upon by both alien ships (which look the same, except one is twice the size of the other), and having just run out of laser power, he can only try one last thing.

Hyperspace.

With sweat on his brow, and trembling hand, (because he never got around to testing it) he presses the hyperspace button, and disappears, just as the smaller spaceship fires a missile. The smaller ship's missile passes right through where our hero had just been, then strikes the larger ship, exploding it into a million fragments. One of the fragments then pierces the hull of the smaller ship, causing it to rupture and explode as well.

The Earth is saved.

After a nail-biting "will he or won't he make it" sequence in which our hero makes his way back through our atmosphere (and miraculously, against all odds, lands exactly in the same field he launched from, right as his fuel runs out), he is greeted by a throng of people, including police and the FAA, who let him go, stating "we can't very well arrest a man that just saved the Earth".

In the crowd is his wife and daughter, tears streaming down their faces, so proud of our hero. He finds renewed love with his wife, a healed relationship with his daughter, and he kicks the alcohol habit for good (as evidenced by our hero taking a small flask of booze from his pocket, pouring it out on the ground, and kicking the bottle into the weeds). Everything ends happily. Cue sappy ballad on the soundtrack. The end.

Provided "Asteroids" is a box office success, we can expect the first sequel to feature a return of the asteroid controlling aliens as they now unleash a giant spacecraft that breaks into six deadly winged ships, while our hero unveils a new home brewed spaceship with a shield defense. This movie would feature gimmicky 3-D effects.

The 2nd sequel would feature the aliens changing the asteroids into giant geometric shapes, and bringing out several new styles of small and stealthy alien craft, while our hero teams up with an awkward but brilliant aeronautics student to create and man a two-person space station with which to protect the Earth.

The final sequel would find our hero (working solo again) determining that all of the alien onslaughts over the past 3 films had been orchestrated by a giant green fleshy alien head floating out in deep space. Luckily, our hero has located several warps in space (which NASA hasn't found yet) to place him closer to this beast. He has also redesigned his spaceship to be able to morph into three different forms, in order to emphasize speed, armor or firepower. He sets off on his final quest to destroy this alien warlord, and insure that Earth will be attacked no more.

Somebody get Michael Bay on the phone!!!!!!

So who should play our hero?

Okay, so maybe I feel creative this morning... ;) Either that or, they've secretly replaced the fine coffee I usually drink with Folgers Crystals.

Kyle :cool:

(c) 2009 Kyle M. Snyder

 
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The theater owners are going to be pissed when they see the burn in on their screens from this movie....
 
Asteroids? Why not make a movie about Star Wars or Tron.

OH wait, never mind. ;)

The difference being Star Wars and Tron were video games based on movies whereas this appears to be a movie based on shooting Asteroids... from 1979... that 4 different movie companies suddenly had the urge to make a movie on... somehow.

Why not go back 1 more year and do a Space Invaders movie? That sounds like it would be something easier to come up with a plot for...no?
 
The difference being Star Wars and Tron were video games based on movies whereas this appears to be a movie based on shooting Asteroids... from 1979... that 4 different movie companies suddenly had the urge to make a movie on... somehow.

Why not go back 1 more year and do a Space Invaders movie? That sounds like it would be something easier to come up with a plot for...no?

Qbert the movie, at least the set would be easy and cheap to build. =)
 
Kyle, if you don't already pitch movies, you need to!!! :eek: :cool:
 
Good thing this forum is timestamped. Now add a simple copyright notice on your post so you can sue in 2 years. :D

BTW, great work on the plot synopsis.
 
I can see it know... it'll become the next Hollywood franchise. Here's how I see this playing out.

The Asteroids movie will focus on the efforts of one man, a disgraced and discharged military pilot who dabbles in rocket technology in his garage. Somehow, he looks through a telescope at the right time and sees hundreds of Asteroids heading to Earth.

Of course, because he is a DISGRACED and DISCHARGED military pilot, his efforts to warn local, state and federal governments, the military, and NASA are all rebuked and ignored, because our hero can't POSSIBLY be right. Along the way, he is also dealing with the imminent collapse of his marriage to the love of his life due to demon alcohol, and the loss of respect from his teenage daughter.

So, he buries himself in his garage, devoting all his time to developing a one-man rocket ship with outstanding maneuverability, a powerful laser cannon, and an experimental offensive capability known as "Hyperspace". It's never been tested before, but it looks good on paper!

Eventually, on the very night his wife leaves him, and his daughter tells him to "F off", he launches his rocket from a nearby abandoned field, manages to survive the trip into space, and destroys all the hurtling asteroids himself! Eventually, he comes to find out that this was no natural phenomenon, as the asteroids were being controlled by a set of alien spacecraft, advanced scouts of a force trying to determine how easy it will be to invade/obliterate Earth for an as-yet undetermined reason. Our hero finds himself being advanced upon by both alien ships (which look the same, except one is twice the size of the other), and having just run out of laser power, he can only try one last thing.

Hyperspace.

With sweat on his brow, and trembling hand, (because he never got around to testing it) he presses the hyperspace button, and disappears, just as the smaller spaceship fires a missile. The smaller ship's missile passes right through where our hero had just been, then strikes the larger ship, exploding it into a million fragments. One of the fragments then pierces the hull of the smaller ship, causing it to rupture and explode as well.

The Earth is saved.

After a nail-biting "will he or won't he make it" sequence in which our hero makes his way back through our atmosphere (and miraculously, against all odds, lands exactly in the same field he launched from, right as his fuel runs out), he is greeted by a throng of people, including police and the FAA, who let him go, stating "we can't very well arrest a man that just saved the Earth".

In the crowd is his wife and daughter, tears streaming down their faces, so proud of our hero. He finds renewed love with his wife, a healed relationship with his daughter, and he kicks the alcohol habit for good (as evidenced by our hero taking a small flask of booze from his pocket, pouring it out on the ground, and kicking the bottle into the weeds). Everything ends happily. Cue sappy ballad on the soundtrack. The end.

Provided "Asteroids" is a box office success, we can expect the first sequel to feature a return of the asteroid controlling aliens as they now unleash a giant spacecraft that breaks into six deadly winged ships, while our hero unveils a new home brewed spaceship with a shield defense. This movie would feature gimmicky 3-D effects.

The 2nd sequel would feature the aliens changing the asteroids into giant geometric shapes, and bringing out several new styles of small and stealthy alien craft, while our hero teams up with an awkward but brilliant aeronautics student to create and man a two-person space station with which to protect the Earth.

The final sequel would find our hero (working solo again) determining that all of the alien onslaughts over the past 3 films had been orchestrated by a giant green fleshy alien head floating out in deep space. Luckily, our hero has located several warps in space (which NASA hasn't found yet) to place him closer to this beast. He has also redesigned his spaceship to be able to morph into three different forms, in order to emphasize speed, armor or firepower. He sets off on his final quest to destroy this alien warlord, and insure that Earth will be attacked no more.

Somebody get Michael Bay on the phone!!!!!!

So who should play our hero?

Okay, so maybe I feel creative this morning... ;) Either that or, they've secretly replaced the fine coffee I usually drink with Folgers Crystals.

Kyle :cool:

This is WAAAAAAAAAAAAAY better then anything Hollywood would turn out. I'm sure they would throw in some Dinosaurs and have the guy upload a computer virus to the space ships after hacking into the Unix system. with his iPod...
 
I can see it know... it'll become the next Hollywood franchise. Here's how I see this playing out.

The Asteroids movie will focus on the efforts of one man, a disgraced and discharged military pilot who dabbles in rocket technology in his garage. Somehow, he looks through a telescope at the right time and sees hundreds of Asteroids heading to Earth.

Of course, because he is a DISGRACED and DISCHARGED military pilot, his efforts to warn local, state and federal governments, the military, and NASA are all rebuked and ignored, because our hero can't POSSIBLY be right. Along the way, he is also dealing with the imminent collapse of his marriage to the love of his life due to demon alcohol, and the loss of respect from his teenage daughter.

So, he buries himself in his garage, devoting all his time to developing a one-man rocket ship with outstanding maneuverability, a powerful laser cannon, and an experimental offensive capability known as "Hyperspace". It's never been tested before, but it looks good on paper!

Eventually, on the very night his wife leaves him, and his daughter tells him to "F off", he launches his rocket from a nearby abandoned field, manages to survive the trip into space, and destroys all the hurtling asteroids himself! Eventually, he comes to find out that this was no natural phenomenon, as the asteroids were being controlled by a set of alien spacecraft, advanced scouts of a force trying to determine how easy it will be to invade/obliterate Earth for an as-yet undetermined reason. Our hero finds himself being advanced upon by both alien ships (which look the same, except one is twice the size of the other), and having just run out of laser power, he can only try one last thing.

Hyperspace.

With sweat on his brow, and trembling hand, (because he never got around to testing it) he presses the hyperspace button, and disappears, just as the smaller spaceship fires a missile. The smaller ship's missile passes right through where our hero had just been, then strikes the larger ship, exploding it into a million fragments. One of the fragments then pierces the hull of the smaller ship, causing it to rupture and explode as well.

The Earth is saved.

After a nail-biting "will he or won't he make it" sequence in which our hero makes his way back through our atmosphere (and miraculously, against all odds, lands exactly in the same field he launched from, right as his fuel runs out), he is greeted by a throng of people, including police and the FAA, who let him go, stating "we can't very well arrest a man that just saved the Earth".

In the crowd is his wife and daughter, tears streaming down their faces, so proud of our hero. He finds renewed love with his wife, a healed relationship with his daughter, and he kicks the alcohol habit for good (as evidenced by our hero taking a small flask of booze from his pocket, pouring it out on the ground, and kicking the bottle into the weeds). Everything ends happily. Cue sappy ballad on the soundtrack. The end.

Provided "Asteroids" is a box office success, we can expect the first sequel to feature a return of the asteroid controlling aliens as they now unleash a giant spacecraft that breaks into six deadly winged ships, while our hero unveils a new home brewed spaceship with a shield defense. This movie would feature gimmicky 3-D effects.

The 2nd sequel would feature the aliens changing the asteroids into giant geometric shapes, and bringing out several new styles of small and stealthy alien craft, while our hero teams up with an awkward but brilliant aeronautics student to create and man a two-person space station with which to protect the Earth.

The final sequel would find our hero (working solo again) determining that all of the alien onslaughts over the past 3 films had been orchestrated by a giant green fleshy alien head floating out in deep space. Luckily, our hero has located several warps in space (which NASA hasn't found yet) to place him closer to this beast. He has also redesigned his spaceship to be able to morph into three different forms, in order to emphasize speed, armor or firepower. He sets off on his final quest to destroy this alien warlord, and insure that Earth will be attacked no more.

Somebody get Michael Bay on the phone!!!!!!

So who should play our hero?

Okay, so maybe I feel creative this morning... ;) Either that or, they've secretly replaced the fine coffee I usually drink with Folgers Crystals.

Kyle :cool:


Wait! you came up with this in less than 45 min? (it had to take a while to type it). WTF!
that's awesome! All we need now is Don laFontaine to do the voice over and it's a go. (too bad he's dead). :(

It would be all: In a world, where science fiction meets reality.
One man, overcomes all odds to save the planet!
http://www.donlafontaine.com/DLF2007/Intro.html
 
I can see it know... it'll become the next Hollywood franchise. Here's how I see this playing out.

The Asteroids movie will focus on the efforts of one man, a disgraced and discharged military pilot who dabbles in rocket technology in his garage. Somehow, he looks through a telescope at the right time and sees hundreds of Asteroids heading to Earth.

Of course, because he is a DISGRACED and DISCHARGED military pilot, his efforts to warn local, state and federal governments, the military, and NASA are all rebuked and ignored, because our hero can't POSSIBLY be right. Along the way, he is also dealing with the imminent collapse of his marriage to the love of his life due to demon alcohol, and the loss of respect from his teenage daughter.

So, he buries himself in his garage, devoting all his time to developing a one-man rocket ship with outstanding maneuverability, a powerful laser cannon, and an experimental offensive capability known as "Hyperspace". It's never been tested before, but it looks good on paper!

Eventually, on the very night his wife leaves him, and his daughter tells him to "F off", he launches his rocket from a nearby abandoned field, manages to survive the trip into space, and destroys all the hurtling asteroids himself! Eventually, he comes to find out that this was no natural phenomenon, as the asteroids were being controlled by a set of alien spacecraft, advanced scouts of a force trying to determine how easy it will be to invade/obliterate Earth for an as-yet undetermined reason. Our hero finds himself being advanced upon by both alien ships (which look the same, except one is twice the size of the other), and having just run out of laser power, he can only try one last thing.

Hyperspace.

With sweat on his brow, and trembling hand, (because he never got around to testing it) he presses the hyperspace button, and disappears, just as the smaller spaceship fires a missile. The smaller ship's missile passes right through where our hero had just been, then strikes the larger ship, exploding it into a million fragments. One of the fragments then pierces the hull of the smaller ship, causing it to rupture and explode as well.

The Earth is saved.

After a nail-biting "will he or won't he make it" sequence in which our hero makes his way back through our atmosphere (and miraculously, against all odds, lands exactly in the same field he launched from, right as his fuel runs out), he is greeted by a throng of people, including police and the FAA, who let him go, stating "we can't very well arrest a man that just saved the Earth".

In the crowd is his wife and daughter, tears streaming down their faces, so proud of our hero. He finds renewed love with his wife, a healed relationship with his daughter, and he kicks the alcohol habit for good (as evidenced by our hero taking a small flask of booze from his pocket, pouring it out on the ground, and kicking the bottle into the weeds). Everything ends happily. Cue sappy ballad on the soundtrack. The end.

Provided "Asteroids" is a box office success, we can expect the first sequel to feature a return of the asteroid controlling aliens as they now unleash a giant spacecraft that breaks into six deadly winged ships, while our hero unveils a new home brewed spaceship with a shield defense. This movie would feature gimmicky 3-D effects.

The 2nd sequel would feature the aliens changing the asteroids into giant geometric shapes, and bringing out several new styles of small and stealthy alien craft, while our hero teams up with an awkward but brilliant aeronautics student to create and man a two-person space station with which to protect the Earth.

The final sequel would find our hero (working solo again) determining that all of the alien onslaughts over the past 3 films had been orchestrated by a giant green fleshy alien head floating out in deep space. Luckily, our hero has located several warps in space (which NASA hasn't found yet) to place him closer to this beast. He has also redesigned his spaceship to be able to morph into three different forms, in order to emphasize speed, armor or firepower. He sets off on his final quest to destroy this alien warlord, and insure that Earth will be attacked no more.

Somebody get Michael Bay on the phone!!!!!!

So who should play our hero?

Okay, so maybe I feel creative this morning... ;) Either that or, they've secretly replaced the fine coffee I usually drink with Folgers Crystals.

Kyle :cool:

where's Damon. AG you need to produce, shoot and direct this project. I think the external shots of the ship destroying asteroids should be video of actual game play. Also like the black and white idea someone mentioned. You know with the right amount of cheese, nostalgia and production value you may have a cult classic on your hands. At least a kick ass you tube video.
 
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I can see it know... it'll become the next Hollywood franchise. Here's how I see this playing out.

The Asteroids movie will focus on the efforts of one man, a disgraced and discharged military pilot who dabbles in rocket technology in his garage. Somehow, he looks through a telescope at the right time and sees hundreds of Asteroids heading to Earth.

Of course, because he is a DISGRACED and DISCHARGED military pilot, his efforts to warn local, state and federal governments, the military, and NASA are all rebuked and ignored, because our hero can't POSSIBLY be right. Along the way, he is also dealing with the imminent collapse of his marriage to the love of his life due to demon alcohol, and the loss of respect from his teenage daughter.

So, he buries himself in his garage, devoting all his time to developing a one-man rocket ship with outstanding maneuverability, a powerful laser cannon, and an experimental offensive capability known as "Hyperspace". It's never been tested before, but it looks good on paper!

Eventually, on the very night his wife leaves him, and his daughter tells him to "F off", he launches his rocket from a nearby abandoned field, manages to survive the trip into space, and destroys all the hurtling asteroids himself! Eventually, he comes to find out that this was no natural phenomenon, as the asteroids were being controlled by a set of alien spacecraft, advanced scouts of a force trying to determine how easy it will be to invade/obliterate Earth for an as-yet undetermined reason. Our hero finds himself being advanced upon by both alien ships (which look the same, except one is twice the size of the other), and having just run out of laser power, he can only try one last thing.

Hyperspace.

With sweat on his brow, and trembling hand, (because he never got around to testing it) he presses the hyperspace button, and disappears, just as the smaller spaceship fires a missile. The smaller ship's missile passes right through where our hero had just been, then strikes the larger ship, exploding it into a million fragments. One of the fragments then pierces the hull of the smaller ship, causing it to rupture and explode as well.

The Earth is saved.

After a nail-biting "will he or won't he make it" sequence in which our hero makes his way back through our atmosphere (and miraculously, against all odds, lands exactly in the same field he launched from, right as his fuel runs out), he is greeted by a throng of people, including police and the FAA, who let him go, stating "we can't very well arrest a man that just saved the Earth".

In the crowd is his wife and daughter, tears streaming down their faces, so proud of our hero. He finds renewed love with his wife, a healed relationship with his daughter, and he kicks the alcohol habit for good (as evidenced by our hero taking a small flask of booze from his pocket, pouring it out on the ground, and kicking the bottle into the weeds). Everything ends happily. Cue sappy ballad on the soundtrack. The end.

Provided "Asteroids" is a box office success, we can expect the first sequel to feature a return of the asteroid controlling aliens as they now unleash a giant spacecraft that breaks into six deadly winged ships, while our hero unveils a new home brewed spaceship with a shield defense. This movie would feature gimmicky 3-D effects.

The 2nd sequel would feature the aliens changing the asteroids into giant geometric shapes, and bringing out several new styles of small and stealthy alien craft, while our hero teams up with an awkward but brilliant aeronautics student to create and man a two-person space station with which to protect the Earth.

The final sequel would find our hero (working solo again) determining that all of the alien onslaughts over the past 3 films had been orchestrated by a giant green fleshy alien head floating out in deep space. Luckily, our hero has located several warps in space (which NASA hasn't found yet) to place him closer to this beast. He has also redesigned his spaceship to be able to morph into three different forms, in order to emphasize speed, armor or firepower. He sets off on his final quest to destroy this alien warlord, and insure that Earth will be attacked no more.

Somebody get Michael Bay on the phone!!!!!!

So who should play our hero?

Okay, so maybe I feel creative this morning... ;) Either that or, they've secretly replaced the fine coffee I usually drink with Folgers Crystals.

Kyle :cool:


Kyle do you have any extra coffee. Can you overnight some;)
 
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