Universal Takes on 'Asteroids'

Source: THR

Video game developer Atari has agreed to a deal with Universal over film rights to the influential 1979 game Asteroids. The upcoming adaptation will be produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura and the script will be done by Matthew Lopez. The original Asteroids, while without a specific plot, featured a triangular spaceship players would manipulate while dodging and destroying chunks of rock.

Lopez’s past writing credits include 2008’s Bedtime Stories as well as this year’s Race to Witch Mountain, which met with relative success at the box office, grossing $67 million domestically.

Long-time producer Di Bonaventura has worked on several blockbuster titles, including the currently-in-theaters Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, currently boasting more than $228 million in grosses after only one week of release, along with the upcoming G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra.