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Missile Command machines soon to be worth $1500, like TRON. Here's why...
You can buy mine right now for $1300. Early bird special.
http://kotaku.com/5731393/missile-command-movie-ready-to-blast-off?_r=true
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118030089
You can buy mine right now for $1300. Early bird special.
http://kotaku.com/5731393/missile-command-movie-ready-to-blast-off?_r=true
Missile Command Movie Ready To Blast Off
Remember Missile Command? The 30-year-old game in which players...command missiles lurches forward towards the silver screen.
Earlier this year, there were reports that a movie version of Missile Command, an Atari arcade game in which players try to save cities from raining missiles, was in the works.
Hollywood is on a 1980s gaming tear of late, developing Battleship and He-Man into feature films.
Burk Sharpless and Matt Sazama, who penned the Flash Gordan reboot and co-wrote Dracula Year Zero, will write the movie version of Missile Command. In the original game, plot was thin to say the least, so there's not really much they can screw up, can they? Can they?
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118030089
Atari arms 'Missile Command' for bigscreen
Sharpless, Sazama to adapt arcade game at Fox
By Marc Graser
Atari has set up its "Missile Command" at 20th Century Fox.
Burk Sharpless and Matt Sazama are set to adapt the 1980s arcade game that Peter Chernin and Dylan Clark will produce through Chernin Entertainment.
Atari topper Jim Wilson will exec produce the project.
Game is the third top title that Atari has set up as a film property, after Universal Pictures acquired "Asteroids" and Sony Pictures Animation picked up "Rollercoaster Tycoon." It also becomes the latest brand from the '80s to get the bigscreen treatment, with U readying a number of toy-based properties from Hasbro, including "Battleship," and Mattel having set up others, including "He-Man and the Masters of the Universe" at Sony and "View-Master" at DreamWorks.
Sharpless and Sazama recently penned the reboot of "Flash Gordon" and co-wrote "Dracula Year Zero."
With "Missile Command," the scribes have little to adapt beyond a title to build a plot around and a Cold War-heavy scenario of players having to defend their cities from being destroyed by a rain of missiles. Game celebrated its 30th anniversary last year.
Atari still offers "Missile Command" to play on its website. Games has sold more than 20 million units over its lifetime.
Dylan Clark and Mike Larocca are shepherding the project for Chernin, while Steve Puri is handling for 20th Century Fox.
Chernin Entertainment is producing "Rise of the Apes," out in June.
ICM packaged the project.
Contact Marc Graser at [email protected]
