Amazing! I remember playing this game as a kid and can’t believe that a story will actually come from this simple Atari video game. It looks like it will happen because 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. As I remember, the concept of the game was so simple. A player controlled a triangular space ship in an asteroid field. The object was to shoot and destroy the hulking masses of... [read full story]
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