Universal Picks Up Film Rights to Asteroids; Likely Won’t Shoot in Vectorscope
Yes, that’s right folks, Universal has picked up the rights to Atari’s 1978 breakout vectorscope classic Asteroids. As. A. Movie.
Lorenzo DiBonaventura (G.I. Joe) will produce, so we know there’ll be action. And rocks. And spaceships. And hyperspace. And triangles.
Here’s to hoping that they do the smart thing and also get the rights to Buckner & Garcia’s masterpiece “Hyperspace” from the Pac-Man Fever album…maybe it’ll even prompt Columbia to re-master the original recordings and re-release them. In the meantime, you can listen to my MP3 of “Hyperspace” with the player below (and yes, it’s the original, and not the crappy re-make that’s on iTunes). Dig that guitar solo at about 1:31!
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July 2nd, 2009 at 7:19 pm
that “hyperspace song should be on the soundtrack for the movie. I guess a movie could be made from any idea even a 3rd person shooter against astroids that make smaller astroids and the occasional alien space ship… it actually sounds kinda boring hahah. Well Zathura was a pretty good movie I guess so all this movie needs is Jon Favreau and we are set.