10 Upcoming Video Game Movies That Absolutely Nobody Asked For
8. Asteroids
The threat of an Asteroids movie has been drifting around since at least 2009, occasionally showing up on a collision course with famous people, including almost-too-obvious director Roland Emmerich. Thankfully, it always skirts safely past. But dont assume the Earth has been spared just yet. Producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura is keen to see it through, despite straight-up admitting the project doesnt make sense. "Atari reached out to me and said, 'We have Asteroids,' and I had an immediate reaction: 'Yes', he said. The reason was not because playing the game, we thought somehow that game could be translated into a movie. It can't." But just because "it can't", doesn't mean they won't. That hollow triangle isn't giving up any hints of characterisation, but Hollywood producers can see a film in anything through the cartoon dollar signs their pupils have turned into. Bonaventura has accepted the challenge to wring story-blood from these space-stones, bluffing out a mythology that he's gutsy enough to compare to Star Wars. "I like the sense of scale" he said, and its hard to disagree. Gigantic, world-ending rocks hurtling through space is pretty exciting, right? Now put yourself on a tiny ship, stuck among them for whatever reason. So what better story to play out against this tense backdrop than "two brothers who have to go through this seminal experience to figure out their relationship"? Oh. What seemed set up to be Armageddon Times A Thousand now seems closer to The Bold And The Beautiful In Space, With Some Big Rocks Maybe. What he probably meant was he likes the scale of the check Atari wrote him.
