'Asteroids' heading towards the big screen?
By Joseph L. Flatley 
posted Jul 2nd 2009 3:03PM
posted Jul 2nd 2009 3:03PM
[Via George Ruiz]
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I hope there's a scene where the spaceship keeps flying through the screen, getting faster with each pass.
Yes, so the screen will be fixed in space and the action will just come and go across the screen? HAHA
Looking forward to the space police flying by randomly, just shooting at you for no good reason.
Pew, pew, pew...
How would you make a video game like "asteriods" into a movie? And more importantly, why?
Shogunmaster is very interested in Michael Bay never directing again...
Lets just pray to the spaghetti god that Uwe Boll doesn't hear about this.
Of course...Shia's in it.
Its PRIME!
No?
sorry.
"As the Reporter, um, reports: "As opposed to today's games, there is no story line or fancy world-building mythology." Michael Bay is rumored to be very interested in directing."
Done --> Transformers 2?
:D
no dream is to big?
no dream is too big.
To sleep, perchance to big.
Ha ha! I photoshopped that directly from the Notorious BIG movie poster
That's great HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA We just looked that up who the hell puts out an incorrect movie poster? , Wait, I digress...
OMG LOL!
@joseph.flatley except for the fact that I cannot seem to find any sort of Notorious BIG poster with that miss-spelling... nice try though. let's see the proof
ah ha! http://www.notorious-big.com/images/notorious_movie_poster.jpg
maybe next time you should photoshop from the REAL movie poster
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3403257088/tt0472198
just a suggestion...
or maybe @slamEVIL can just chill out and remember we're just having a little fun here
@joseph.flatley: why do you assume that i'm not joking and everyone else is? i was having fun until i realized you didn't know what sarcasm was. here, does this make it easier for you?
OMG i am soooo totally joking around here but hear me out: maybe next time you should photoshop from the REAL movie poster
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3403257088/tt0472198
just a suggestion...HAHAHAHAHAHA
bad photochop FTW!
@slam.EVIL Sarcasm is all about the delivery, be it written or spoken. The sarcasm was there, but it was far too uncouth to take lightly, Note how the sarcasm you employed failed to mold with the rest of the thread. This isn't to say your sarcasm shouldn't be noticed, rather it wasn't obvious enough to be sarcastic.
You see what I did there? :B
@slamEVIL
Someone piss in your Fruit Loops this morning? Chill out.
common guys. Everyone knows sarcasm is interpreted incorrectly 50% of the time when in written form. Or 100% of the time when I use sarcasm
I'd love to see a classic, black and white Asteroids app for the iphone. I know there are updated copies, but I'd like the original.
@ Paul A. Chapel
Right. Because a classic b&w game MUST ONLY be ported for a device with a ridiculously high contrast ratio. We certainly don't want to compromise on anything. The fact that 1980s television sets had the contrast ratio of a page from the New York Times matters not.
And to answer your question "why?": because more than 5 people own an iPhone.
Paul's right, OLED is definitely the way to go for asteroids... would make it really pop!
I'd love to see the CRT emulator on it though :-)
Wait a secon...is Paul A. Chapel saying that the iPhone isn't the best device in the world for something? Shit, the apocalypse has come sooner than expected.
where are you posting from? Get to sanding
*Ship floating in space*
"Holy crap where did all these asteroids come from." "Shoot them all!"
*random flying space craft*
"Income fire captain." "Return Fire!"
"What's that cadet? You say my income is on fire!. NOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
The real cause of the recession is that everybody's income was on fire.
Did somebody already buy the rights to Pong?
IIRC Fox got the rights to Pac-Man rest year.
Though I am waiting on someone getting the film rights to Tetris, or in your case Pong.
Please, for the love of god, DO NOT LET MICHAEL BAY direct this.
Next thing we know, the spaceships will be able to "teleport" through time.
Funny review on Transformers 2:
http://www.toplessrobot.com/2009/06/bonus_robs_transformers_2_faqs.php
whats wrong with teleportation?
Michael Bay = Uwe Boll with a HUGE budget
Are you kidding? Michael Bay is perfect for this. Think about it:
Asteroids: All action, explosions, and absolutely no plot.
Michael Bay: All action, explosions, and absolutely no plot.
Jorvay nailed it.
My dad had asteroids once.
What ? I'm pretty sure if they named a Movie "Asteroids" .. No one would have thought it was a take on the game .. Why would you pay for such a awful title of a movie
Now there's a Michael Bay movie I'd probably watch.
What is with Michael and Shia?
I can see them getting all cozy-like, à la Burton and Depp.
Best burn on Michael Bay ever? or Best burn on Michael Bay Ever.
Haha, I can't tell if this is real or if it's all just making fun of Transformers.
Michael Bay Explosions!
Michael Baysplosions!
Ma-Ba-Sploom!
after the abomination of Transformers: ROTF (wahts next? TF3: LMAO)....i think i might just stop watching movies period.
I also suffer from MBMBS (Michael Bay Must Be Stopped). We must unite!
I know it was a bad movie.. but I was still entertained.. which is very rare for me...
I guess the reason was because Transformers was a toy that was created, then they created a cheesy cartoon just to promote the toy. So that is why I didn't get too fired up about anything... It's not like it was some classic novel that Mikie Bay raped.. or a piece of history *cough* Pearl Harbor *cough*
Now if he would have taken Lord of the Rings and put flames on Aragorn, I would be pissed. :-)
I'm a mild mannered person. It usually takes alot to 'get to me'
However if I found myself walking down the street, glancing at the other side of the road and saw Micheal Bay walking along talking to Shia over a mocca to go... I'd sprint over there and tw@t him one so 'king hard, seriously he would never make another film.
Hopefully I'd spare other movie goers that horrible need to puke my guts up when watching one of his films.
I blame 'Mr Bay' for the huge rise in torrents... eveyone has just given up on hoping that the flim they pay good money for will actually be worth it.
MBMBS... where do i sign up....
phew, feel better now.. back to my zen garden...
I don't think the movie will be about the game persay, but about a middle aged man who has a dream of getting the high score in his favorite childhood videogame. It will probably star Seth Rogan or Jack Black and include stealing an Asteroids arcade machine or some other zany anctics.
I'd pay to see it!
that's the idea.
Is Bay making a sequel to Armageddon? Thats what it is looking like right now... How is he going to bring Bruce Willis back though?
Ah Armageddon, you taught me so much:
1) Fire in the vacuum of space is perfectly normal.
2) Radio waves carrying voices can't be transmitted through giant rocks...but radio waves carrying signals to detonate nuclear weapons can.
3) You can land shuttles on asteroids that have a shocking amount of gravity.
4) People still like Aerosmith for some inexplicable reason.
5) Just because you name a character "Oscar Choice" (Owen Wilson) doesn't mean you're a shoe-in for best picture.
I can't wait until they make a full-length IMAX adventure move about Pengo.
Wow - while movies based off of video games usually suck, this one doesn't even have a fighting chance. While Frogger might have PETA up in arms I think it, or Dig Dug, would be much more entertaining.
Well, they are making a Tron sequel with music by Daft Punk...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TR2N
I sure hope there's a video game tie-in.
No no no, you're missing the theme here. it's going to be like "King of Kong" A documentary type, about atari's rise to the top! They can add in a bunch of stupid imaginary 3d visualizations of "The Unix System", it'll be EPIC. and in 3d, Megan Fox's cup size will increase 2 fold as the hot sexy computer programmer, like they all were back in the day.....
Although, not sure how they will fit the whole documentary into that one little black screen with all the actorys scrolling in at odd angles and speeds.
Also, this reminds me of the Minesweeper movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHY8NKj3RKs
Make a Wizard of Wor movie, damnit!!!
Huh? Are you serious? I thought nothing could beat my disgust for the chun li but this one tops it. Barf.
This is better : Mine Sweeper the movie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHY8NKj3RKs
Somewhere there is an Asteroids coin-op that hopefully still has my initials SLF as the top score...
The Last Starfighter needs to be remade ASAP,
you sir, read my mind... top of the class for you
Well, they are doing the sequel..
Still waiting for the Pong movie... There's some list out there with rumored planned movies based on video games, and some of them are ridiculous.
If they need a big scotsman who can actually play the game, I'm available for a small fee ;-)
Been a big Asteroids fan since the early 80's, could wrap original Asteroids many many times.
Deluxe was much harder.
XBLA Tag - BugEyedMonster
Gotta wonder what on earth they could do with this IP.... Someone needs to distract Uwe Boll before he sees this opportunity!
Sound track should be easy to do...
Yeah... Hans Zimmer will do...
"No dream is to big," eh?
The grammar nazi in me is foaming at the mouth.
Shouldnt it be, no dream is too big?
Definitely not The Onion.
*Checks calendar*
...Nope, 8 months until April.
...WTF?!
FUCK MICHAEL BAY, UNREPENTANTLY AND RUDELY.
ahem.
I think I'd actually rather see Descent made into a movie than Asteroids, if only for the nostalgia.
Asteroids in IMAX will be a mind-blowing and stomach-upsetting experience!
This will totally kill my Pong screenplay.
But there is a misspelling, so I doubt that poster is real. Either that or the sentence got truncated, as in "no dream is to big, as a photon is to little" or something like that. (There is no dream that is so big as a photon is little. In other words, photons are pretty darn small. The better to shoot asteroids with large quantities of, in the form of frickin' laser beams...)
What's next? "Pac-Man: Directed by Uwe Boll"?
F. Michael Bay. So what, he makes movies that are 95 percent computer special effects, freaking whoopty do. The story line was garbage in Trans 2. Horrible directing. He's garbage. Hanging all over blu-rays nuts.
A brother dies. A hero is born. Get in line for adventure.
If you're getting movie ideas from ancient coin-ops, then clearly there is only one logical choice:
Burgertime.
There is only one logical choice for a truly great film spawned from the arcades:
Burgertime.