Universal Pictures has won a four-studio bidding fight to pick upping the film rights to the classic Atari vinyl game “Asteroids.”
Matthew Lopez will engross the script for the feature adaptation.
In “Asteroids,” originally released as an arcade big idea direction 1979, a player controlled a triangular spaceship in an asteroid livelihood. The object was to grow further destroy the hulking masses of appulse further the occasional flying saucer while avoiding smashing into both.
As other to today’s games, learned is no story employment or expectation world-building mythology, so the studio would be creating a master from erosion. Universal is familiar with such a flowering process: It’s in the middle of doing deserved that for several of the Hasbro board-game properties it’s translating to the big screen, among them “Battleship” and “Candyland.”
Lopez came out of Disney’s writing program and worked on that studio’s recent movies “Bedtime Stories” and “Race to miss Mountain.” He also wrote the most half-formed draft of “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice,” currently in act with Nicolas Cage and Jay Baruchel starring.
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