taksraven Posted July 2, 2009 Posted July 2, 2009 (edited) Fark me. http://www.darkhorizons.com/news/14541/uni...film-adaptation For anybody too young to remember this arcade classic with a very lavish storyline, it looked like this..... Taksraven Edited July 3, 2009 by taksraven Quote
shiroikaze Posted July 2, 2009 Posted July 2, 2009 AHAHAHAHAHAH, I'd like to see how they'll run with this! Quote
anime52k8 Posted July 2, 2009 Posted July 2, 2009 Fark me. http://www.darkhorizons.com/news/14541/uni...film-adaptation Taksraven how the f*ck... WHAT??!?!? Quote
mechaninac Posted July 3, 2009 Posted July 3, 2009 Every time you think things have reached the bottom of the barrel, Hollywood proves that all they need to do is lift the barrel to bestow upon us even more mindless drivel. Quote
Ghost Train Posted July 3, 2009 Posted July 3, 2009 Maybe it will be a loose open interpretation of Asteroids - centering around a family trying to survive the global economic recession discovering that having each other is more important than their former life of luxury. It will star Will Smith. Quote
Graham Posted July 3, 2009 Posted July 3, 2009 LOL! Never minding about scraping the bottom of the barrel, they've finally broken right through the bottom. I wonder how much they had to 'pay' for the rights......LOL......Idiots! Graham Quote
the_foul_fowl Posted July 3, 2009 Posted July 3, 2009 I'm just waiting for the next major film adaptation... PONG. The Movie. Oh yes, I can see it now! Quote
Gubaba Posted July 3, 2009 Posted July 3, 2009 I'm just waiting for the next major film adaptation... PONG. The Movie. Oh yes, I can see it now! Is this a good time to bring this classic up again...? Quote
areaseven Posted July 3, 2009 Posted July 3, 2009 Is this a good time to bring this classic up again...? Can't be as bad as this... Quote
JB0 Posted July 3, 2009 Posted July 3, 2009 Seriously? Well, Hollywood... at least you can't mess it up too badly, since there's no established story(that anyone cares about) or canon. That's a start. Quote
Cent Posted July 3, 2009 Posted July 3, 2009 I dont know about that. Leave it to Hollywood to leave out the biggest characters: the asteroids. Quote
Graham Posted July 3, 2009 Posted July 3, 2009 I really hope that whoever sold the rights to Universal took them for every cent they could get and are laughing all the way to the bank. I really don't get why Universal even thought it was necessary to buy the rights. Graham Quote
electric indigo Posted July 3, 2009 Posted July 3, 2009 Cant' wait for the J. J. Abrams reboot ten years later. Quote
ShadowerV2 Posted July 3, 2009 Posted July 3, 2009 (edited) "Asteroids: Rocking out of this world" or... Space Cadets so Stoned you think they were... Asteroids..... (It can't get any worse than that) Edited July 3, 2009 by ShadowerV2 Quote
Ghost Train Posted July 3, 2009 Posted July 3, 2009 (edited) Thousands of years ago ....in a city totally submerged underwater .... emerged a hero .... that would save the world TETRIS 2010 A film by Uwen Boll Edited July 3, 2009 by Ghost Train Quote
505thAirborne Posted July 3, 2009 Posted July 3, 2009 LOL! Never minding about scraping the bottom of the barrel, they've finally broken right through the bottom. I wonder how much they had to 'pay' for the rights......LOL......Idiots! Graham No they did not scrape, they did not Break through the Bottom, they took 10 tons of TNT and blew the bottom into frakin pieces!! Quote
shiroikaze Posted July 3, 2009 Posted July 3, 2009 No they did not scrape, they did not Break through the Bottom, they took 10 tons of TNT and blew the bottom into frakin pieces!! No, they FALCON PUNCHED their way through and to obliteration. Sometimes I wonder if the human race generally gets more tasteless with each generation... Quote
Vermillion21 Posted July 3, 2009 Posted July 3, 2009 SWEET. I can't wait to see the trailer ... Quote
Gaijin Posted July 3, 2009 Posted July 3, 2009 Pew Pew Pew Pew. Can't wait 'till it's out on Blu-ray. Quote
shiroikaze Posted July 3, 2009 Posted July 3, 2009 Pew Pew Pew Pew. Can't wait 'till it's out on Blu-ray. I bet it's an interactive movie. Quote
505thAirborne Posted July 3, 2009 Posted July 3, 2009 Pew Pew Pew Pew. Can't wait 'till it's out on Blu-ray. That will be one week after it flops at the theater. Quote
Ghost Train Posted July 3, 2009 Posted July 3, 2009 PS3 exclusive ???1!?? That is Communism! I demand a 360 and Wii version. Quote
JB0 Posted July 4, 2009 Posted July 4, 2009 I really hope that whoever sold the rights to Universal took them for every cent they could get and are laughing all the way to the bank. I really don't get why Universal even thought it was necessary to buy the rights. Graham Honestly, I suspect they ONLY wanted the name. "Hey, remember those movies a few years back about a space rock ramming the Earth? Let's do one about TWO space rocks ramming the Earth!" "Sounds good. We can call it ASTEROIDS! Because there's two of them. It's like Aliens." "I think Atari owns that name." "Crap. Can we buy it off them?" Or maybe they're gonna adapt the story from the home port manual... http://www.atariage.com/manual_html_page.h...areLabelID=1007 Linked for your suffering. Quote
DJ Loe Kee Posted July 4, 2009 Posted July 4, 2009 it's going to be a movie for action junkies. no actors, no actresses, no scriptwriters, no director, no producers, just a cgi spaceship flying around blowing up asteroids for 2 and a half hours. and the critics will still complain about it needing more action scenes. Quote
MilSpex Posted July 4, 2009 Posted July 4, 2009 Rusty Griswald - "Have you got Asteroids?" Cousin - "No, but my dad does." Quote
Cent Posted July 4, 2009 Posted July 4, 2009 Or maybe they're gonna adapt the story from the home port manual... http://www.atariage.com/manual_html_page.h...areLabelID=1007 Linked for your suffering. Wow. 3 paragraphs of background. Thats already 2 paragraphs more than what Hollywood needs to make a movie. Quote
JB0 Posted July 5, 2009 Posted July 5, 2009 Wow. 3 paragraphs of background. Thats already 2 paragraphs more than what Hollywood needs to make a movie. But it's AWFUL background! ... Well, okay, it's just BAD background. SPACE INVADERS had awful background. In that it makes the entire thing a game within a game. Quote
taksraven Posted July 5, 2009 Author Posted July 5, 2009 Wow. 3 paragraphs of background. Thats already 2 paragraphs more than what Hollywood needs to make a movie. Its still 3 paragraphs more background than they gave to the cinema TF franchise. Taksraven Quote
Einherjar Posted July 5, 2009 Posted July 5, 2009 There's the chance that instead of a movie creating a plot about the Asteroids game, it'll be a film about the history behind the Asteroid game. Like one of those documentaries about Bill Gates and Steve Wozniak, it could be about Lyle Rains, Ed Logg, and Atari. But who would want to watch that when you can butcher a very simple concept to fit a demographic? Quote
Cent Posted July 5, 2009 Posted July 5, 2009 Uh... Really? If you were going to make a documentary to pay homage to a classic game... Wouldn't you start with BETTER and more CLASSIC games like Tetris or Pong or something? Asteroids is a good game and all, but I'm not in the slightest interested in how it was made. Quote
Twoducks Posted July 5, 2009 Posted July 5, 2009 While you simpletons make fun of this Hollywood escapade I'm off to procure the right of every Atari 2600 game there is. When Hollywood decides to make Activision's Skiing: THE MOVIE they'll have to pay me big bucks for the rights. Quote
Einherjar Posted July 5, 2009 Posted July 5, 2009 Uh... Really? If you were going to make a documentary to pay homage to a classic game... Wouldn't you start with BETTER and more CLASSIC games like Tetris or Pong or something? Asteroids is a good game and all, but I'm not in the slightest interested in how it was made. It's less embarrassing compared to making a storyline around 3 triangles shooting rocks and the occasional UFO in space (and the smaller UFO). At this rate, keep an eye on a SkiFree deal. Quote
areaseven Posted July 6, 2009 Posted July 6, 2009 Wake me up when Hollywood decides to do a Breakout movie. Quote
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