BigGameHunter reports that Universal has picked up film rights to the Atari arcade video game "Asteroids", with Matthew "Race To Witch Mountain" Lopez developing a screenplay for a feature adaptation.
Producer is Lorenzo "G.I. Joe" di Bonaventura.
Originally released as an arcade game in 1979, "Asteroids" had a single player control a space ship, while shooting and destroying incoming obstacles.
Universal is currently adapting other game properties into films, icnluding Hasbro's "Battleship", "Monopoly" and "Candyland"...
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