How Will Hollywood Ruin the 'Asteroids' Movie?

What Asteroids looked like before Hollywood got its hands on it. Proving that there is no relic from our childhood that cannot be turned into an expensive event movie bearing almost no resemblance to the original artifact, The Hollywood Reporter says that Universal has acquired the movie rights to Asteroids, the bleeping, blooping 1979 video game in which crude line drawings were used to represent rocket ships and gigantic space rocks. Before the motion picture industry sinks millions of dollars into the project, we’ll save it the trouble by imagining how “Asteroids” would be made into a film by directors like… Michael Bay: In this $300 million, three-and-a-half hour spectacle, loud and expensive computer simulations of large boulders crashing into one another are briefly interrupted by the hilarious antics of Chip and... [read full story]                    

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