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hollywoodreporter.com - 7/2/2009

'Asteroids' lands at Universal

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Universal has won a four-studio bidding war to pick up the film rights to the classic Atari video game "Asteroids." Matthew Lopez will write the script for the feature adaptation, which will be produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura. In "Asteroids," initially released as an arcade game in 1979, a ...

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Universal wins 'bidding war' for Asteroids movie rights
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Yahoo! Tech Advisors — ... arcades in the late 70s and early 80s. No back-story, no characters, and not even much of a soundtrack (unless you count the ominous "bup, bup … bup, bup"). Sounds perfect for a big summer movie, right? You betcha, and indeed, Universal Studios—the makers of such cinematic gems this year as "Fast & Furious" and "Land of the Lost"—announced last week that it bought the movie rights for Asteroids, with "Race to Witch Mountain" scribe Matthew Lopez signed to pen the script (this according to the Hollywood Reporter ). Of course, the big question here is whether Lopez can stay ...