Thursday, 2 July 2009

So, they're making a movie based on ASTEROIDS

Is this what Hollywood has now been reduced to? Making movies about a small triangle (likely to be played by Shia LaBoeuf) shooting large rocks (likely to be played by Dwayne Johnson) into little rocks (Warwick Davis?) whilst a random spaceship (Scarlett Johansson?) flies past letting off the odd pot-shot.

I always felt the narrative was compelling enough to survive the transition to cinematic form.

There. Is. No. Story! Why would you have a 'four-studio bidding war' over this? Why? WHY?

Where will the insanity end? No, wait, we've already been there. But expect to see Uwe Boll's Paperboy, Quentin Tarantino's Pac-Man and Pixar's Frogger on their way in the near future.
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10 comments:

  1. Neth2 July 2009 at 18:10:00 GMT

    Don't forget Scorsese and deCaprio in Pong

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  2. Longasc2 July 2009 at 18:10:00 GMT

    They just want the NAME to tell a generic "asteroids" scifi story. They should have picked some novels by Asimov, his space ranger "Lucky Starr" had some adventures in the asteroid belt, too. And the name Asimov is still a seller, but I guess it was cheaper to buy the "Asteroids" name.

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  3. James2 July 2009 at 18:47:00 GMT

    The protagonist should be played by Orlando Bloom - he's got the I-have-no-personality-or-depth-beyond-this-brooding-exterior thing down to a tee.

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  4. RobB2 July 2009 at 18:51:00 GMT

    Don't forget Pong.

    On a more serious note, God of War would make an awesome movie.

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  5. Sci-Fi Gene2 July 2009 at 19:39:00 GMT

    ...starring The Rock?

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  6. Jebus3 July 2009 at 02:01:00 GMT

    It just beggars belief the extraordinary lengths that Hollywood writers and/or movie studios will go to in creating more and more farcical films. It really does blow my mind that there are MILLIONS of novels and short stories out there that could be translated into the cinematic or televisual medium quite well and yet they make shite like this.

    And if they are gonna choose video games and board games to make films of, what about King's Bounty? Curse of the Azure Bonds (book also)? Diablo? Heroes of Might & Magic? Shogun (board game or PC game)? Quake? Duke Nukem? Bubble Bobble? Fucking COMMANDER KEEN for Christ's SAKE!!!

    You just gotta laugh don't ya?

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  7. Jebus3 July 2009 at 02:02:00 GMT

    Sorry meant production houses, not movie studios, though it's their fault for picking up such tripe.

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  8. Joe3 July 2009 at 02:08:00 GMT

    Actually, if you gave Paperboy to Tarantino (rather than Pac Man) I would pay to see that.

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  9. Jebus4 July 2009 at 09:09:00 GMT

    And now they're making one about the viewmaster - have we morphed into Bizarro Earth?

    http://www.darkhorizons.com/news/14543/-fringe-scribe-looks-through-view-master-

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  10. Anonymous5 July 2009 at 07:28:00 GMT

    reminds me of this:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHY8NKj3RKs

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