Universal Wins Rights To Produce An…Asteroids Movie

@hazelnut - RIP Michael Jackson: Oh dear lords. It uses the whole "Speed Racer" premise for the movie. That's unexpected, and... yet... I totally can understand that choice now.

Thanks for sharing.

Now... Peggle!

@tormenta3001: They'll screw it up somehow.

@(Zombie) Jolan: but he would get all upset, because asteroids looks like something you'd play on a wii. and he'd be all like "OMG! GFTO! STFU!" you know?

and i'd be in the corner going "piow! piow!"

oh yeah. you know it.

@tormenta3001: heyyyy... you're right, that really could work.

This is a perfect movie for michael bay. 90 minutes of outerspace collisions and explosions with none of that pesky story, characters, pacing and good dialouge.

Just him and his pure over the top CG effects masturbation overkill.

@bangbangblah:

What Ever happened to that damn Joust Movie?

@AngryEddy: Oh man I would pay to go see a Burger Time Movie.

@Salen:

@Tracid: which was rather lame overall.

no-name actors FTW! Seriously who would star in this movie?

jakster4u

When I read news like this, I wish one WOULD hit us. This really reads like an afternoon daydream of a geeky 10-year-old circa 1982.

Hey, that 10-year-old has grown up a lot since then. And he would've at least been ambitious enough to make it a "Sinistar" movie. Ahem.

jollydwarf

It'll be such a failure if they mess up the movie game. How can you mess up asteroids?

@(Zombie) Jolan: I was going to say that :(, also your star disappeared! What's up w/ that?

@John-irl:
This movie came out already called Deep Impact! Or Armageddon starring Bruce Willis.

Maybe this can be about Niburu approaching Earth in 2012 (you guessed it) and, uh, shooting it into a million pieces?

So it can be like PEWPEWPEWPEWPEWPEWPEWPEWPEWPEWPEW....
Awesomeness.

@twinturbo2: Correction: Asteroids on XBLA wanted to say hi, but those massive technicolor explosions that block out everything got in the way.

This is going to be a real winner

Asteroids, as we all know, is famous for its amazing story and deep gameplay, so we'll all be chomping at the bit to see how hollywood handles the project.

I do have some major questions:

1. Will Dash Carmine feature in the movie? He played a big part in the game, saving the crew of the TDD Arrow by sacrificing himself in the third stage (just before the UFO)- can they recapture the tear-jerking scene where Alex holds him in her arms, watching him slip away? I don't want them to ruin it!!!!!
2. Will we see 3D or 2D sequences of the time-jump back to 1772, when the crew fights the Pal'Ku'Qar timeship that's gone back to crush the American revolution?
3. Are they going to show Caesar and Krishna carpet-bombing Montreal during the Cuban Missile crisis? I know that was from the 'unofficial' sequel, but a lot of people (myself included) think it's totally canonical!
4. Can they really show the part where Jesus shows up in the final stage and pilots the Arrow after the crew are all killed?
5. Are Tom Cruise and The Rock still onboard (as reported years ago when this was still in development hell!) to play Refa-Molosh (the conjoined space baby/galactic emperor)?
6. Will they use Frank Herbert's original shooting script, or will they use Takeshi Miike's version?

I'm excited but cautious about this hollywood remake of such a classic franchise! More news as this develops!

@(Zombie) Jolan: I am thinking of trademarking the name Ass Steroids, it will be a movie about Major League Baseball

@hot_heart:

LOL cuh-lassic, rack it.

I never played the original, I played some clone of it on Colecovision. I think in the one I played, the bullets could go off one side of the screen and appear on the other also. Take that Geometry Wars and you're rigid unyielding walls!

Oh snap, Geometry Wars! I think they'd make more money selling the movie license to that then they will from that stinker they showed at E3.

rexdart007

@mikhailian: Blaming GTA V, no less...

yobbo

@ZhaneEndrick: I remember that comic, although Michael Bay would be much better at adding MORE explosions and a ton of slow-mo action to the movie than Jerry Bruckheimer.

It's going to be Titanic in space. I know it.

@MechaTama31: Woah, you mean all I have to do is put the plain URL in, and Gawker automagically embeds it? -_- Is there an instruction manual for this website?

MechaTama31

@MechaTama31: wow, I really screwed up that link. Just copy-paste it, I obviously fail at internets.

MechaTama31

After seeing that "

">trailer" for the Minesweeper movie, I never dismiss news like this. If that Minesweeper movie ever got made, I would totally go see it! "Why are these mines even here?!" :D

MechaTama31

Bruce Willis already made that movie.

@SegevRaz: But they'll still blame the next GTA for killing their sales. It has NOTHING to do with formulaic movie concepts and a lack of ingenuity...

mikhailian

@Salen: Penny Arcade was on top of this one several years ago:
[www.penny-arcade.com]

ZhaneEndrick

This is literally the worst idea for a film I've ever heard.

Well done for that.

@OW-Holmes:Enemy of R.O.A.C.H.: I lol'd.

mikhailian

You know, they could have just made a movie about asteroids, called it something like "Hyperwing" and they would have saved themselves the effort. Noone can hold the rights to asteroids as a concept and the game itself has absolutely no feasible material to base a screenplay on. So they just basically bought the name Asteroids and a whole lot of people that are going to leech profits off of a story-less, basic-as-you-can-get resource for creativity.

omg its awesome game but i cant imagine a plot to this film xd

Francuzzz1010

@zoesch: Some more scenes for that trailer
"OMG it's comming right at us!! accelerate, no wait!! first turn around!!"
"Shoot it!!Shoot it!!, We got him... Oh dear lord, now there are 2 of them!!"
"who is resposible for this asteroids... is that a flying saucer?"

@Poul Wrist: HA

@TheWP: Well, I can't get the right symbol to appear after typing in the hex or decimal code. Thank goodness for Firefox Add-ons.

①②③④⑤⑥⑦⑧⑨⑩

TheWP

@(Zombie) Jolan: Do it.

I just hope it is as good as the John Carpenter classic Dark Star

@Curse_Lily: Ah, marukyuu...

How do you actually make the characters? Certain Alt combination?

TheWP

@spannu: +1

Temidien

Narrator: In space... no one can hear you fight, earth is in grave danger from...

Asteroooooooooooooooids...

*Killing Joke-Asteroids plays in the background*

Narrator: Love... Passion... Finish the fight... For Earth

*Camera pans back to Tom Cruise*

Commander Blaster (Cruise) addressing the general (John Lithgow): Sir, earth is in grave danger

*Cue montage, Blaster running through the fields towards love interest (Megan Fox) just to see her vaporize as a mini asteroid strikes her, Blaster looks up at the sky and screams, swearing revenge... cut to Blaster training hard at the space academy using a virtual reality simulation (To be sold on XBLA and PSN)*

Narrator: This summer, it's time to blast them back to where they came from...

*Cue montage of Blaster on the ship, triangular in nature, spinning wildly while trying to shoot hundred of asteroids*

Soundbite: Asterooooooooooooooid...

Credits roll: Fall 2011...

They better keep true to the Asteroids mythology or the fanboys are gonna be piiiiiised.

@twinturbo2: Knew someone was going to mention that, hence why I said Bionic Commando and not Bionic Commando Reloaded....

@TheWP: ⑨ ^_^

Whatever happened to the Joust game movie?

furiku

@Curse_Lily: How do you get those wonderful Japanese characters? I only know how to get the つ. The upside down A, the floating dots, and the circular numbers... No clue how to make them appear.

I need the circular 9 for Cirno.

TheWP

@bangbangblah: I like these better:
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Or, Space Invaders...
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Bokusatsu_Tenshi

@LionheartAce: Nah... the soundtrack must be "pew pew pew doo dee doo dee" only.

I'm a purist!

Bokusatsu_Tenshi

@(Zombie) Jolan: Hmmmm very tempting alright （･∀･)つ⑩ one please

@(Zombie) Jolan: HEY! HEY! that's four to many vowels.

@Curse_Lily: Hahaha oh God, that'd be pretty awesome.

@(Zombie) Jolan: I'd like to pre-order 3 copies please.

Why?

@twinturbo2: Also, a film adaptation of San Francisco Rush 2049 done in the style of the Speed Racer movie would be awesome. Shut up, I thought the Speed Racer movie was okay...

twinturbo2

@Jekht: Asteroids on XBLA says hi...

twinturbo2

@AngryEddy: Dont forget Tapper, the harrowing story of a alcoholic trying desparetly to win the trust of his boss and the love of his estranged son.

Or Centipede, the harrowing story about a...centipede.

OW-Holmes:Enemy of R.O.A.C.H.

Since Midway is owned by Warner Bros. now, maybe they could do a Gauntlet movie. Just sayin'.

twinturbo2

Didn't Michael Bay already make this movie?

Poul Wrist

@hot_heart: I'd watch it.

....Probably not.

I am trademarking the name Assteroids for an uninspired and banal (>_>) porno ripoff of the movie.

@Oceaniax: To be fair I don't think it ever had a chance.

@Jekht: If the box art has a tough looking guy, and a smiling girl, I'm sold.

'In a world where giant rocks keep flying around a concentrated spot, increasing in size and frequency as time goes on, one man will make a difference.

A fleet of hastily designed ships that look like triangles were being blasted away, one after another, until one man found he could go off one side of the screen and reappear on the other.

This is his story.'

Looks like this may actually be plausible: [www.penny-arcade.com]

bangbangblah

I don't understand what took them soo long, finally the "C" movie I've been dreaming of.

fanboyps3

We're looking at a next gen remake of Asteroids, ala Bionic Commando here folks. No way would a movie like this be made without a tie in videogame.

It seems that today is the day Hollywood has officially ran out of ideas for movies. How stupid is that? A movie about Asteroids? Doom's producer? Come on..

FINALLY
I've waited 30 years of my 21 year long life for this.

@Cimmerian76: MOOOONNNEEEEEEYYYY

@LtdEdLoser: God damnit, not you again. I still laugh thinking about you saying that with that face.

Five dollars says it stars Shia LaBoeuuauauaeauauf

are you fuckin' kidding?

Hopefully it'll be a double feature along with the Burgertime movie starring Sean Penn.

Oscar winner, for sure.

Credited with penning Transformers, GI Joe & Doom? Well, Asteroids is doomed.

Oceaniax

Im hoping its just Top Gun in space.

OW-Holmes:Enemy of R.O.A.C.H.

@Cimmerian76: *Done tons

This game concept is so vague, I don't see the need for a bidding war. Hollywood has tone tons of these "large rocks approaching Earth" movies. Why bid for this? If this has Bruce Willis in it, I'm going hunting in the Universal offices.

Oh lord! if it has a video game look-a-like part like in the "Doom" movie i'm sold ^_^

Hot dog, we have a wiener.

This is a really bad idea. Next, Michael Bay will be making a Tetris movie. I would have said Uwe Boll, but he's already slaughtered too many video games in movie format.

Make it look and feels like the Tron Movie and it may even work!

tormenta3001

Dammit Johnson, I told you to turn LEFT!

spannu

I can see it now... "I don't wanna close my eyes..." Sickening.

...

XD

At least two asteroids...its plural... :)