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Get ready for this! ASTEROIDS: THE MOVIE coming soon to a theater near you!
Ain't It Cool News - The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news. — ... here. Methinks someone high up at Universal is having a bit of Peter Pan complex. There are worse things for an executive to have, for sure... But this is the studio that's working to bring us Candyland and Battleship and now they've jumped from the board game to the classic arcade game. ASTEROIDS: THE MOVIE. Should have been an '80s movie starring Fred Savage and Lance Guest. Alas, according to Mr. Borys Kitt at Hollywood Reporter we're getting the movie now, with Lorenzo di Bonaventura producing and RACE TO WITCH MOUNTAIN's Matthew Lopez attached to script. Of course ...

'Asteroids': Arcade game may be a movie
EW.com: Movies — Atari's 'Asteroids' heads to theaters According to The Hollywood Reporter , Universal won a bidding war for the big-screen rights to the classic 1979 Atari game Asteroids. Writer Matthew Lopez, who recently worked on Disney's Bedtime Stories and Race to Witch Mountain , has the task of inventing a story for the arcade game, in which a player controling a space ship racks up points by shoots asteroids and flying saucers. Lorenzo di Bonaventura ( G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra ) will produce. More arcade games from EW: ...

For people who were intellectually challenged by the 'Transformers' movies....
Mad About Movies — Here comes a film based on the classic arcade game "Asteroids." Four studios were bidding on the project. Four. For a film about "Asteroids" -- A GAME WITH NO PLOT OR CHARACTERS OR ANYTHING REMOTELY RESEMBLING A STORY. I have long joked that Hollywood would eventually become so mentally and morally bankrupt that it would make movies about parcheesi and checkers. I now see I have drastically overestimated the movie world's standards of intellect and taste.