[Yes. Really.] With the movie rights for Pac-Man and Joust already snapped up, the bidding war for the privilege to adapt Atari's old-school rock-buster Asteriods into a film has come to an end.
Universal won the four-studio competition, according to The Hollywood Reporter, with Lorenzo di Bonaventura (G.I. Joe: Rise of the Cobra) attached as a producer and Jeff Kirschenbaum (Wanted, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World) overseeing. The script is to be written by Race to Witch Mountain (2009) scribe Matthew Lopez.
Also in the works at Universal are four feature film adaptations of classic Hasbro board games, which could result in movies inspired by Battleship, Candyland and Monopoly.
See, I told you so.
But this is an awesome thing, here. You got your triangle spaceship, your many slowly-disintegrating asteroids, and, eh, a magic ball console system warped through time from 1979.
What's really great about this is that it brings us one step closer to a three-film epic: Tetris: the Awakening. Or Blockening. Something Ing. MAKE IT HAPPEN.
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