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Author Topic: Asteroids: The Movie Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 07-31-2009 11:24 AM                        IME says that Universal acquired the rights to the old video game "Asteroids." Lorenzo di Bonaventura is going to produce. Those are some bare bones to hang a story on! Captain Smith has a mission: Turn big rocks into medium size ones, then mediums into smalls, then blow up the smalls, which will disappear. Suddenly, an alien ship arrives but can't hit the broad side of a barn, so Cap'n Smith vanquishes it with ease (that'd be your big opening battle scene). BUT WAIT! Now there's a tiny ship piloted by a marksman from the planet XeTron and he can actually aim! He blows up the Captain's ship. But wait! He's not really dead! He comes back to life with a new ship. Suddenly, another alien ship arrives that can't hit the broad side of......  |  IP: Logged Darryl Spicer Film God Posts: 3250 From: Lexington, KY, USA Registered: Dec 2000 posted 07-31-2009 11:56 AM                    What! As rumours go and there have been many of them...supposedly Peter Jackson is having trouble getting his Halo movie project to be accepted because distributors fear it wouldn't make any money.....HELLO!!!! Peter have you tried Universal....rumour has it they just bought the rights to Asteroids.....WOOOOOOHOOOOOO!!!!!! like that's going to make the money that a Halo movie will make.  |  IP: Logged Sam Graham AKA: "The Evil Sam Graham". Wackiness ensues. Posts: 1431 From: Waukee, IA Registered: Dec 2004 posted 07-31-2009 07:30 PM                        Warner Bros should one-up Universal and buy the rights to Asteroids Deluxe and turn the Wachowski Brothers loose on it.  |  IP: Logged Joe Elliott Master Film Handler Posts: 497 From: Port Orange, Fl USA Registered: Oct 2006 posted 07-31-2009 08:48 PM                     Hey Mike, isn't that the plot to one of the Star Trek Movies?  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 07-31-2009 09:20 PM                     They need to make a movie adaptation of Pong and then follow up that feature with the Pong in Prison saga, Breakout! Who has the chops to direct those two movies? John Woo? McG? Nope. Brett Ratner!  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 07-31-2009 09:31 PM                        How about Pac-Man? Imagine the chase scenes! Although the best video game movie has yet to be made: Defender.  |  IP: Logged Sam Graham AKA: "The Evil Sam Graham". Wackiness ensues. Posts: 1431 From: Waukee, IA Registered: Dec 2004 posted 07-31-2009 11:12 PM                        Wasn't Defender's sequel called "Stargate"? Hasn't there been like 53 television series called "Stargate"?  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 08-01-2009 01:26 AM                     Actually I thought there was some sort of copyright violation problem with Williams Electronics using the "Stargate" term, which is why later versions were called "Defender II."  |  IP: Logged Mark J. Marshall Film God Posts: 3188 From: New Castle, DE, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 08-01-2009 07:54 AM                    Combat - Directed by Michael Bay.  |  IP: Logged

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