| ONE STEP CLOSER TO MY ULTIMATE DREAM OF A SINISTAR MOVIE |
[Jul. 2nd, 2009|02:06 pm] |
Which do you find more comically disturbing: that Universal is going to produce a big screen movie based on the classic arcade game ASTEROIDS or that Universal had to engage in a four-studio bidding war to win the rights to make a big screen ASTEROIDS movie?
It sounds like some sort of ridiculous joke. A big budget special effects science fiction action flick based on a plotless 1979 video game about a triangle-shaped spaceship blasting asteroids while trying to avoid getting smashed by them. Better believe the occupants of that enemy flying saucer are going to suddenly play a much bigger role.
But it's not a joke, at least not according to The Hollywood Reporter. Today they report that super producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura (TRANSFORMERS, G.I. JOE, DOOM) will produce a motion picture based on a 30-year old video game all about shooting polygons. Disney script doctor Mark Lopez (BEDTIME STORIES, RACE TO WITCH MOUNTAIN) has been given the daunting task of formulating a plot out of this plotless game. Expect a precocious kid aboard the rock-blasting spaceship.
In other related news, somewhere in Hollywood a screenwriter with an original idea not based on a toy, video game, comic book, old television show, or a pre-existing film just pitched his script to a studio and was promptly thrown off the lot and told never to come back.
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If there's any justice, your dreamed of Sinistar movie will look something like this
From: (Anonymous)
2009-07-03 01:21 pm (UTC)
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Any eles remeber the story about a pac-man movie?
Why not Centipede? At least you could get a giant monster centipede and other bugs. Oh wait, we get that every week on Sci Fi. My mistake! | |
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