Slashing The Seats » Adaptations http://slashingtheseats.net Here's a list of places I want this car to be totally unwelcome. Sun, 24 Apr 2011 12:16:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Newsgush: Hollywood To Adapt Asteroids http://slashingtheseats.net/2009/07/03/newsgush-hollywood-to-adapt-asteroids/ http://slashingtheseats.net/2009/07/03/newsgush-hollywood-to-adapt-asteroids/#comments Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:51:34 +0000 Von http://slashingtheseats.net/?p=264 asteroids
OK, now I’m seriously having issues with the whole remake / adapt / rip off thing Hollywood is doing right now. I guess I can understand the thinking behind adapting games like Mario Brothers (huge child-cash-sack fanbase) Tomb Raider (horny male-cash-sack fanbase and readymade plot) and while I don’t think it’s a good idea to make movies based on games, at least I can see the fuzzy logic behind it. There is still something vaguely understandable.

But can someone please explain how Asteroids – a game made up of shooting monochrome polygons with another monochrome polygon and NO CHARACTERS OR PLOT WHATSOEVER deserves a move adaptation?

So there will be an asteroids movie, scripted by Matthew Lopez who has previously penned the Adam Sandler meh-fest Bedtime Stories and, surprise surprise, the remake of Witch Mountain.

What next? As Hollywood descends deeper into adapting whatever it notices on the way to the office, can we expect heartwarming indie rom-com ‘Lamp Post: The Movie’? CGI children’s adventure – ‘Litter – A Crisp Packet’s Tale’? Or perhaps all action blockbuster ‘Vending Machine Fury (starring Vin Diesel)?

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