Universal To Make Asteroids Movie

When movie studios are developing big budget big screen movies based on Stretch Armstrong and Candyland, I knew it was only a matter of time before Hollywood started to mine some of the classic video games of the children of the 70's/80's. Universal has won a four-studio bidding war to win the film rights to the classic Atari video game Asteroids. Newcomer Matthew Lopez, who came out of Disney's writing program and did work on Bedtime Stories, The Sorcerer's Apprentice and Race to Witch Mountain, has been hired to write the screen adaptation.For those of you who don't remember, the game involved the player controlling a triangular space ship in an asteroid field, shooting and destroying rock and the occasional alien spaceship to avoid collision. Originally released in 1979 as an upright arcade machine, and later released on the Atari video game systems, the game spawned three sequels - Asteroids ...

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