Asteroids: The Movie--I kid you not.
Ken_from_Chicago
Yeah, I know what you're thinking: What next, film adaptations of
Battleship or Candyland?
Well, actually ...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090703/film_nm/us_asteroids_2
-- Ken from Chicago (who awaits Matchbox Cars: The Trilogy)
moviePig
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090703/film_nm/us_asteroids_2
>
> Yeah, I know what you're thinking: What next, film adaptations of
> Battleship or Candyland?
>
> Well, actually ...
>
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090703/film_nm/us_asteroids_2
>
Pong...
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http://www.moviepig.com
nick
> On Jul 3, 5:50 pm, Ken_from_Chicago <kwicke...@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> >http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090703/film_nm/us_asteroids_2
>
> > Yeah, I know what you're thinking: What next, film adaptations of
> > Battleship or Candyland?
>
> > Well, actually ...
>
> >http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090703/film_nm/us_asteroids_2
>
> > (who awaits Matchbox Cars: The Trilogy)
>
> Pong...
>
film rights to the classic Atari video game "Asteroids," . . . As
opposed to today's games, there is no story line or fancy world-
building mythology, so the studio would be creating a plot from
scratch.'
So four studios fought for the right to make something up from
scratch?
Jim Gysin
Ken_from_Chicago sent the following on 7/3/2009 4:50 PM:
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090703/film_nm/us_asteroids_2
>
> Yeah, I know what you're thinking: What next, film adaptations of
> Battleship or Candyland?
>
> Well, actually ...
I wonder if they'll be true to the original characters or whether
they'll change things like that rat bastard J.J. Abrams did. :)
--
Jim Gysin
Waukesha, WI
moviePig
We move with 'heard' instinct. (I.e., if we've heard of it, we'll pay
to watch a movie of it. Accept your moviegoer heritage.) So, the
studios have bought a one-shot surefire greenlight. (And won't it be
fun for whomever gets to dream up the plot... especially knowing they
can't do worse with this particular concept than ARMAGEDDON did...)
Michael O'Connor
>
> Pong...
>
Missile Command: The Movie
The End?
Dimensional Traveler
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Things I learned from MythBusters #57: Never leave a loaded gun in an
exploding room.
Traveler
>Lopez came out of Disney's writing program and worked on that studio's recent movies "Bedtime Stories" and "Race to Witch Mountain."
Um, do we need any more info??????
Kevin Reilly
> So four studios fought for the right to make something up from
> scratch?
The mind boggles. And if they're making up a script about deadly asteroids
that has nothing to do with the game (and unless it's 120 minutes of a guy
in a spaceship rotating from left to right then any similarities will be of
the vaguest nature) then why not just call it Asteroids? It's a plural noun
descriptive of the threat, nothing more, nothing less. Certainly nothing
for Atari's lawyers to hang anything concrete on, surely?
Or are they bidding to use the actual multi-coloured Asteroids *logo* for
the movie? Which brings us back to the original question of why, if the
movie has nothing to do with the game?
Hollywood seems to be losing more of the plot on a day by day basis.
--
Kev
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"Heartworm is an infectious, life-threatening cardiovascular disease
spread by misquotes." From a medical journal
moviePig
The only video-game movies I recall falling well short of ARMAGEDDON's
threshold were by Uwe Boll ...and I doubt any of the four bidding
studios has that fate in mind...
Invid Fan
<3e34355e-0d4c-4e39...@q11g2000yqi.googlegroups.com>,
Ken_from_Chicago <kwic...@comcast.net> wrote:
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090703/film_nm/us_asteroids_2
>
> Yeah, I know what you're thinking: What next, film adaptations of
> Battleship or Candyland?
>
Robot Chicken already did the previews for the 'Chutes & Ladders' and
'Hungry Hungry Hippos' movies.
--
Chris Mack *quote under construction*
'Invid Fan'
Ken from Chicago
"moviePig" <pwal...@moviepig.com> wrote in message
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On Jul 3, 5:50 pm, Ken_from_Chicago <kwicke...@comcast.net> wrote:
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090703/film_nm/us_asteroids_2
>
> Yeah, I know what you're thinking: What next, film adaptations of
> Battleship or Candyland?
>
> Well, actually ...
>
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090703/film_nm/us_asteroids_2
>
> (who awaits Matchbox Cars: The Trilogy)
~Pong...
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Touche!
-- Ken from Chicago
Ken from Chicago
~The only video-game movies I recall falling well short of ARMAGEDDON's
~threshold were by Uwe Boll ...and I doubt any of the four bidding
~studios has that fate in mind...
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~ http://www.moviepig.com
How DARE you suggest American directors can't outworst a fur'ner director?!!
This 'ere's 'MER'CA! If anyone can be number one at worst movie making, it's
righcheer!
-- Ken from Chicago
Arthur
Derek Janssen
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090703/film_nm/us_asteroids_2
>
> Yeah, I know what you're thinking: What next, film adaptations of
> Battleship or Candyland?
>
> Well, actually ...
http://movies.ign.com/articles/853/853920p1.html
(What, you don't recall the "New version of Clue without Tim Curry, but
the one with was better" thread a while back?)
Derek Janssen
eja...@verizon.net
Ken from Chicago
"Arthur" <art...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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~Sounds pretty Parcheesy.
MONOPOLY: THE MOTION PICTURE.
-- Ken from Chicago
Jack Bohn
>http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090703/film_nm/us_asteroids_2
Well, darn you, Ken. After spending too much time looking for my
Pac Man Fever album, I later realized I don't have a record
player to play it on, so I paid Amazon 99 cents to download a
copy of "Hyperspace (Asteroids)". Darn you to heck!
(Still, if this project rumbles into shooting, it might be nice
of them to throw a bit of money to Jerry Buckner and Gary Garcia,
unless that would open up a worm-can of entangled rights.)
--
-Jack
~consul
>> http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090703/film_nm/us_asteroids_2
>> Yeah, I know what you're thinking: What next, film adaptations of
>> Battleship or Candyland?
>> Well, actually ...
>> http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090703/film_nm/us_asteroids_2
>> -- Ken from Chicago (who awaits Matchbox Cars: The Trilogy)
> ~Sounds pretty Parcheesy.
> MONOPOLY: THE MOTION PICTURE.
"Greed ... is good."
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"... respect, all good works are not done by only good folk. For here, at the end of all things, we shall do what needs to be done."
--till next time, consul -x- <<poetry.dolphins-cove.com>>
Ken from Chicago
"Jack Bohn" <jack...@bright.net> wrote in message
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You mean this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXMoozltG3Q
'nuff said.
-- Ken from Chicago