Guest Stoppit Posted July 3, 2009 Share Posted July 3, 2009 I think Hollywood are possibly scraping the bottom of the barrel with this one. In fact I think they've scraped through the barrel, and into a second, shit-filled barrel underneath. http://filmdrunk.uproxx.com/2009/07/asteroids-arcade-game-movie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaosmachine Posted July 3, 2009 Share Posted July 3, 2009 hopefully it's a comedy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Gary C Posted July 3, 2009 Share Posted July 3, 2009 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squee Posted July 3, 2009 Share Posted July 3, 2009 AAAAHAHAA! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcbpete Posted July 3, 2009 Share Posted July 3, 2009 I misread and thought there was gonna be an Arkanoid film coming out.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squee Posted July 3, 2009 Share Posted July 3, 2009 Universal has won a four-studio bidding war to pick up the film rights to the classic Atari video game "Asteroids." Matthew Lopez will write the script for the feature adaptation, which will be produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura. ... Di Bonaventura's next outing is "G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra," which Paramount is set to open Aug. 7. ... Lopez came out of Disney's writing program and worked on that studio's recent movies "Bedtime Stories" and "Race to Witch Mountain." He also wrote the most recent draft of "The Sorcerer's Apprentice," currently in production with Nicolas Cage and Jay Baruchel starring. God, that's pathetic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Fishtank Posted July 3, 2009 Share Posted July 3, 2009 [Lopez recently worked Bedtime Stories and wrote the latest draft of The Sorcerer's Apprentice, while Di Bonaventura bears responsibility for G.I. Joe.] yup sounds like a winnar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Stoppit Posted July 3, 2009 Share Posted July 3, 2009 this just in: Asteroids movie is no longer the dumbest concept in Hollywood...may I present... VIEW-MASTER: THE MOVIE OH YES http://www.comingsoo...ws.php?id=56857 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
essines Posted July 3, 2009 Share Posted July 3, 2009 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Stoppit Posted July 3, 2009 Share Posted July 3, 2009 needs more facepalm, I think Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest hahathhat Posted July 3, 2009 Share Posted July 3, 2009 the comments on the asteroids movie article are great My dad’s got this movie. Can’t even sit on the toilet somedays. really, i think they're trying to capitalize on 80s nostalgia more than asteroids or viewthingies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCM Posted July 3, 2009 Share Posted July 3, 2009 horace goes skiing movie or gtfo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Fishtank Posted July 4, 2009 Share Posted July 4, 2009 Despite the fact that video game-inspired films have not yet attained either critical or financial success, the film industry still believes in them enough to invest some serious cash in upcoming game-based projects. Producer Steven Paul, who has brought movie audiences recent gems such as Ghost Rider and Bratz, announced that his production company, Crystal Sky Pictures, has managed to bring in $200 million to help fund five films. These include Castlevania, an unnamed sequel to Hard Boiled (which inspired John Woo's Stranglehold), and a celluloid version of Pac-Man. Despite Pac-Man's rich history in both video games and television, this movie is going to be a complete re-imagining of the franchise. An insider has leaked the the plot outline of film to us: P'ak, a powerful warrior from a different reality, is banished to our version of Earth by a traitorous general bent on usurping the throne of P'ak's world. Stuck on our planet, P'ak ends up befriending quantum physicist Ernest and his young daughter, as well as developing a romantic entanglement with tribal tattoo artist Pepper. The three eventually help our hero return home, where he ends up saving the day and then bringing Pepper across the dimensional barrier to live happily ever after with him. Apparently, the P'ak is going to be a ripped guy for most of the movie, but his ceremonial armor will be a a close approximation to the round body we know from the video games; "it'll look kind of like those aliens from the beginning of The Fifth Element." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modey Posted July 4, 2009 Share Posted July 4, 2009 lol, that has got to be a joke, right? edit: why can't i quote that post? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thehauntingsoul Posted July 4, 2009 Share Posted July 4, 2009 I thought the pac man thing was a joke but given that the first two in this thread completely appeared to be jokes but weren't I'm going to go with wtf. Seriously asteroids? Pac-Man? VIEWMASTER???? Does hollywood not realize that there are literally thousands of games between that era and now that actually HAD a storyline that would work as a movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest hahathhat Posted July 4, 2009 Share Posted July 4, 2009 the president has been kidnapped by ninjas.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Fishtank Posted July 5, 2009 Share Posted July 5, 2009 the Pac-Man movie was refrenced on a couple other pages but it doesn't have an IMDB yet so who knows Castlevania could be good but they'll fuck it up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
springymajig Posted July 5, 2009 Share Posted July 5, 2009 Check it out, a trailer for Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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