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Universal Lands Rights To Asteroids Movie
It seems Universal Studios has won the highly sought-after movie rights to the 1979 Atari game Asteroids. Disney's Matthew Lopez will be writing the adaptation, having previously worked on the scripts for Bedtime Stories, The Sorcerer's Apprentice and Race to Witch Mountain. The NY Times is skeptical about Hollywood's ability to do right by the 30-year-old game, already imagining what a director like Michael Bay would do with it: "In this $300 million, three-and-a-half hour spectacle, loud and expensive computer simulations of large boulders crashing into one another are briefly interrupted by the hilarious antics of Chip and Gravel, two living rocks with gold teeth who speak in hip-hop slang, and the nonstop shouting of John Turturro."
I was thinking of a particular scene from Stellvia, personally. /weaboo
heck - even Pitfall or Pac Man would be better
Uh oh, now you've done it. Here's the preview for Pac Man. Although, personally I liked minesweeper more.
My work here is dung.
You know, with odds like this the popcorn fun will come from watching how badly it bombs at box office.
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Multiple rocks really. They had a small fleet flying around with lasers, breaking up any rocks that got through the shield. In other words, Asteroids. They could basically take the first half of Stellvia and rename it Asteroids: The Movie.