ASTEROIDS!! movie???

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Universal has picked up the rights to make a movie of the classic Atari video game “Asteroids”. First released as an arcade game back in 1979, Asteroids featured a triangle-shaped space ship that needed to be move around an asteroid field shooting them, hence the name, and when you shot one of these asteroids it would brake into smaller pieces, which you also needed to shoot... and let's not forget the flying enemy space ships...

Matthew Lopez will write the script for this adaptation, and will be produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura, the producer of both Transformers movies, the 2005 adaptation of the Doom game, Constantine, Shooter and the upcoming G.I. Joe : Rise of the Cobra

So, are you just like me at this point, wondering what the hell will the movie be about? I can imagine a combination of Deep Impact, Armageddon and all those movies that include something hitting the Earth. You can't go wrong with a movie like this!! (sarcasm, just in caso you didn't get it)

“As opposed to today’s games, there is no story line or fancy world-building mythology, so the studio would be creating a plot from scratch.” said Universal.



(Source : www.hollywoodreporter.com)