Atari’s Asteroids to be made into a movie?
Transformers 3 producer to make a movie of the hit 1980′s Atari Asteroids video game
“I’ll tell you what my thought process was,” he said about the project in development. “When I was called about the property – I was called because of what I’d done with ‘Transformers’ and ‘G.I. Joe.’ Atari reached out to me and said, ‘We have Asteroids,’ and I had an immediate reaction ‘Yes.’ The reason was not because playing the game, we thought somehow that game could be translated into a movie, it can’t.
The word ‘Asteroids’ connotates a large-scale experience, so the challenge, which was great, was ‘Okay, so how do you get a mythology that will support that?” We really went after a mythology on the level of ‘Star Wars’ and we’ll see if we succeeded or not but it’s not a simple thing of the asteroids are going to hit the earth. We never come to earth. The entire movie takes place in the asteroid field. We do some homages to the game for sure, but I like the sense of scale.”
The video above is more or less what the movie is going to look like, except its going to cost 140 million dollars to make, and have at least 3 car chases, plus numerous explosions (but space explosions)
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