Comments on: Asteroids Movie Coming To The Big Screen

By: Producer Explains Asteroids Movie Plot - Screen Rant

Producer Explains Asteroids Movie Plot - Screen Rant — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 20:25:03 +0000

[...] pieces of news that has come out in recent months was that they are developing a big-screen adaptation of the classic arcade game, Asteroids. It’s just one of many classic properties set to be given the movie treatment, but also one [...]

By: 790

790 — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:04:57 +0000

I think we all know how this ends.

The little ufo comes out (Sirin’s a blazing), its touch and go for a bit, we destroy the ufo and whew its over. Then out of the either more asteroids appear. The captain hits the Hyperspace button,,,, roll credits.
We won’t know if the ship survives until Asteroids 2.

By: Gary

Gary — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:10:50 +0000

Spaceships, asteroids,
all very visual.
It makes sense to me .

By: Matt Keith

Matt Keith — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:57:59 +0000

“What’s next, Pac-man the movie?”

I heard that they actually ARE making a Pac-Man movie.

By: Hollywood Toy Trend Continues With ‘View-Master’ Movie - Screen Rant

Hollywood Toy Trend Continues With ‘View-Master’ Movie - Screen Rant — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:26:41 +0000

[...] the bewildering news that Hollywood is going to be making a movie based on the classic arcade game, Asteroids – a game with no story or mythology behind it, which thus it begged the question of how they plan [...]

By: Manowar

Manowar — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:39:57 +0000

I played Asteroids on my Atari 2600 when i was a kid. I was so good that i reached max score of 999,999 points and the score reset to zero. Took me about 2 hours non-stop. it was pointless to play it again after that.

Movie would suck.

By: 790

790 — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:37:34 +0000

I smell a Mario Bros remake.

And Jim Carey as Pac-Man. You know its coming.

By: gingerbeer

gingerbeer — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:11:22 +0000

Good shout – The Legend of Zelda is a game I’ve been waiting years for, ever since playing Ocarina Of Time on the N64, hey probably from the cartoon days lol. Imo a Zelda film would as epic as lord of the rings

By: Chris O

Chris O — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:06:35 +0000

How about Space Invaders, Duck Hunt, Centipede, Missile Command. Though I would love to see A Legend of Zelda Movie, That could work.

By: 790

790 — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:13:01 +0000

Mskatzburg, we had that it was called “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire”

By: mskatzburg

mskatzburg — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:54:17 +0000

Joust is severly needing to become a movie.

By: 790

790 — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:52:04 +0000

LMFAOROF,,,, Puke!!

Space Duel was a far superior game.

By: Andy S

Andy S — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:27:02 +0000

@INK…that was the funniest thing I’ve seen all day man. Thanks, I needed a good laugh!!

Wasn’t there already a film in the 70’s called Meteor that is essentially the same thing? Just remake that. It sure sucked the first time, so they couldn’t really make it worse.

I’m really surprised we don’t have a Space Invaders movie or a Centipede movie.

By: SpaceCowboy1701

SpaceCowboy1701 — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:59:22 +0000

@ INK

Awesome. Expect agents to be calling you within the hour to buy that.

The funniest part of this news is that FOUR studios were in a bidding war for “Asteroids” of all things … that just astounds me …

By: INK

INK — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:55:15 +0000

Coming 2011 …

FADE IN

“They shouldn’t have done it.

They went too far.

They took from him what mattered most in his life.

And now they are going to pay …

Get ready for non-stop action/comedy/horror/drama as this timely tale unfolds and buck-teeth go flying!

He’s furry, he’s funny and he’s is royally pissed off!

‘Give me back my cereal, punk!’

He’s the Trix rabbit and he’s poised to open up a box of sugar-frosted a** whoppin’!”

Starring Brad Pitt as the Trix rabbit and Brad and Angelina Jolie’s kids as the protagonists little brats who stole his cereal.

“Have I got a Trix for you!”

FADE TO BLACK

By: Ross Miller

Ross Miller — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:53:47 +0000

@L,

So I’ve to stop doing my absolute favourite pasttime so that they stop making these kinds of movies? That would kinda’ suck…

By: Lord Garth, Formerly of Izar

Lord Garth, Formerly of Izar — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:49:03 +0000

THey should make a movie about a late 30- early 40ish, slacker, dude still living at home with their parents (with for some reason a really hot stuff magazine-ish girlfreind who can’t act but looks hot in long slow sweaty closeups) who actually has the original arcade console shown above and is on the verge of breaking the world record (shot King of Kong docudrama style) when a real life Astroid storm hits and aliens show up (Exactly like the Last Starfighter) recruit him as an astroid fighter pilot to shoot the astroids out of the sky before they crush Earth’s cities. All the while they can seamlessly include digitally enhanced and remastered cutscenes from Meteor(especially enhancing Sean Connery’s rug) Starring Sean Connnery and Karl Malden working with hard core Commies(no Not Obama, Pelozi, Reed, Waxman, Feinstein, et all,. the real Russian Commies!!) to use both nation’s orbital nuclear platforms to destroy the really big astroid that the last Starfighter Astroids 2nd place champion can’t wipe out in his fighter.
This way other than completely ripping off the typical one or two films that Hollywood does as is it’s want. They can actually rip off 3 (King of Kong, Last Starfighter and Meteor) or more cult classics and capitalize of the death of Karl Malden as well. and Judd Apatow could direct it.

By: L

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:21:02 +0000

If you don’t like it, stop going. TRANSFORMERS made 200 million in 5 days… as long as that keeps happening, Hollywood will keep looking for classic IP to exploit as feature films. Pretty simple equation.

By: Josh R

Josh R — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:12:28 +0000

I really can’t see how “Asteroids” will really benefit from name recognition. It’s not a very unique title, like Pac-Man or Pong, so I feel like a lot of people won’t even realize the movie is “based” on the game.

But the ship had better have a triangluar shape, seeing as that’s literally the only thing they could possibly screw up with a movie like this.

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:33:38 +0000

Didn’t we already have a asteroid movie called Armageddon.