Universal wins 'bidding war' for Asteroids movie rights

[INTERIOR] [SPACE STATION SORBET VII]

ENSIGN CAMEO: Sir! I'm picking up several signatures on my gamma pulse spectrum radar!
GENERAL CONSENSUS: Is it an attack? Did the Radical Space Sect find us?
ENSIGN CAMEO: No, sir, these objects are too small ... too listless and apathetic to be ships! It's like they have no particular trajectory ... they're completely unpredictable.
GENERAL CONSENSUS: Dr. Diana Fhire! What do you make of this?
DR. FHIRE: Hmm, I've never seen anything like this, possibly because I'm meant to be this film's gratuitous eye candy and thus possess highly suspect academic qualifications like Denise Richards did in that one Bond movie. Anyway, my tachyon scanner indicates that we are not dealing with biological matter. In fact, the substance seems ... no, that can't be!
GENERAL CONSENSUS: What? What are we dealing with here?
DR. FHIRE: Rocks. Big rocks. In space.
GENERAL CONSENSUS: My god. Space rocks ... but how?
DR. FHIRE: It's only a theory, but I believe coming into contact with these ... these ... "asteroids" could kill us severely.
GENERAL CONSENSUS: How ... how many of them pose a threat?

[CLOSE UP ON DR. FHIRE]

DR. FHIRE: All of them, general.

[CLOSER UP ON DR. FHIRE]

DR. FHIRE. All. Of. Them.

[INTERIOR] [ALARMS SOUND]

GENERAL CONSENSUS: Ensign! Get me gruff-but-likable washout pilot Jack Plot. He's the only one that can fly the experimental Triangulon Mark V --
DR. FHIRE: The Triangulon?! Are you crazy? That thing's still a prototype! It's not tested for --
GENERAL CONSENSUS: We don't have a choice, Diana. I'm not getting my ass kicked by these roids!

ASTEROIDS: THE MOVIE
Written by Matthew Lopez
Produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura

Reader Comments (59)

Would anyone have noticed if they had made the same film but just called it "Meteors" instead? They had to buy the film rights? Really?!

Well there is a difference between a meteor and an asteroid.
Meteors actually enter the Earth's atmosphere.
Asteroids are bigger and just float around in space or orbit things.
So depending on what kind of movie they're actually trying to turn this into.......

It's actually "meteoroid."
The "meteor" is the streak of light following the actual object.

So here I was thinking, "So, you can't edit comments, but it's ok, because no one will notice that you meant to say 'Meteroids'".

Brings to mind.. "The meteorite is the source of the light, and the meteor's just what we see, and the meteoroid is a stone that's devoid of the fire that propelled it to thee."

As far as the bidding war, I'll echo sentiments of 'what, seriously?'

Asteroids are a natural phenomenon and there's nothing stopping anyone from making a film about them. Licensing a game with no plot seems like an incredible waste of money. The only possible rational motivation I can think of is some kind of marketing campaign that involves letting people play the game, or maybe some modern re-invention of it (not that there haven't already been plenty) on phones and current gen systems.. Even so, I think everyone knows what the game is all about, and it's simplicity, and wouldn't give two shits about it nowadays. It's not hard to find a version of it to play for free.

Isn't Meteor the movie about the life and times of the "Where's the Beef?" lady?

(I'll boo myself here)

Booooo...

But we all know how that ends... she finally found the beef in Prego pasta sauce, Wendy's fired her, and she died shortly thereafter.

Edweird: +100000000 for Joanna Newsom. :x

Apparently because NBC (aka Universal) already made a made for TV movie called Meteor. I just saw the commercial for it and I was thinking, "Wow, this is a ripoff of Armageddon" and then I saw that it was called Meteor

I want to see this movie become a reality.

Best script ever for the worst movie idea ever.

So we can expect it to be like the seen from Blue Harvest right?

"We came out of hyperspace into an asteroid field!"

I believe you'll find that's SCENE, not SEEN.

Also: http://mybroadband.co.za/photos/data/630/GrammarNaziCat.jpg

Anyway, I'd lol if it were, although I prefer the Dr. Who bit just before it - "hyperspace always looks so freaky"

"Going...too...fast! I've passed through to the other side...of the screen!"

......huh?

Is that Freddie Mercury?

either that, Thor von Clemson, or Tenacious D

bravo

Brilliant. I had to try and refrain from actually lol'ing since I'm reading this in class. But the lols are there for sure.

that write-up was absolutely fantastic.

So WTF was "Armageddon" about?

Asteroid?

Notice the distinct lack of "S"

Not after those bad space motherfuckers was done with it. Asteroids, plural.

Can the prop for the Triangulon Mark V be a Subaru XT Turbo?

DSG?

*sniff* Why?...Why? WHYYYYYYYY?!?!?!?!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I think I see her face in the largest asteriod!

DSG should be in one post every day, hidden so you need to really look to find her, like the brotherhood of steel armour picture.

I miss her too though *sniff*

And why can't Pachter only be allowed one day a year? Can't we trade them or something?

Send Pachter to the dark depths of Dead Space and have DSG pull facts out of her ass. Now THAT's something we'd all want to see, huh, amirite huh?

This is the worst idea in the long sad history of worst ideas. The only thing that tops this is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wI1UVDOuMqE&feature=related

Can everyone say, "Academy Award Winner"?

No way, it won't be anything like the game =(

Sweet! I hope this will be as good as Pong! the Movie....

http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Pong!_the_Movie

They could call the Asteroids movie "Dead Space."

Get it?

Hey, I'm doing the best I can to fill the void.

"What do you think this is, Jack Plot, A GAME?!?!?!?"

*everyone in movie stops and winks at the audience for 17.8 seconds. Moms laugh.*

THIS SUMMER. ONE MAN. ONE SHIP. ONE MILLION ASTEROIDS.

Asteroids.

COMING 2010

By Michael Bay.

*insert explosion*

Look at that black asteroid, it has a gold tooth and cant read. Odd.... Blast it!

I can just hear the token black dude line.

"Giant asteroid heads towards ship*

"THAT'S ONE HOT POTATO!"

The audience laughs, I facepalm, and the the African American rights movement get's pushed back a hundred years.

I dunno, I'd like to see M. Night tackle this one.

What if in the end, it turned out that WE were really the asteroids. What a TWEEST!

Diana Fhire.

I love Ludwig.

Ludwig is the 'stiq's best writer IMO.

excellent script. i wouldnt be suprised if that made it into the movie

You know, I don't buy into the whole "world ends in 2012" crap, but then again hearing they're making an Asteroids movie makes me guess again.

During the Great Depression Hollywood gave us many classics. During the Great Recession, we're getting bottom-of-the-barrel remakes, sequels, game movies and other cheap crap.

Ug.

"I'm not getting my ass kicked by these roids!"

Best. Line. Ever.

Dude, that's like the plot for Transformers 3!

AoD

best Joystiq post I've read today

man, you wanna talk about playing a game for hours upon hours - I played this ALOT on the ole 2600 back in the day.

screw a movie - give me 2600 titles on VC.

I'm actually curious about this one... I wonder what could they possibly do.
Anyway it'll probably be very unoriginal and unimaginative. But definetly better than a 2-hour movie showing a ship blasting asteroids to no end, until the ship is destroyed in a scene so dramatic that everyone will be teary and/or "WTFTHISCRAP??".

Agh, another beloved video game franchise will be ruined by an obnoxious movie plot.

Besides, don't they ever learn? Movies based on video games always turn out to be bad.

...or was that the opposite?

Didn't they do this already? It had Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck in it.... right?

If that were an actual trailer for the movie, I think I would have to go watch it...

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