"I will own you stupid random alien...dude!"

Video game adaptations will never die, despite what we all might think after the abomination trilogy  on the big screen that is Resident Evil. Still taking great advantage of this semi popular genre of sorts, Universal Pictures nabbed itself the rights to the hit 1979 Atari game, Asteroids. For those of you who do remember the game, its the one where…you just hit asteroids and ocassionally a flying saucer. Yeah, I know.

Matthew Lopez will pen the script with Lorenzo di Bonaventura producing, and yes Di Bonaventura is attached as producer to the upcoming late summer movie, G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra. Pertaining to the actual storyline, it has not been revealed but due to the very simple nature of the video game and overall lack of plot, Universal Pictures will conjure up some form of an original storyline for this feature. After all, this is the booming studio that is coming up with ideas for features out of such classic board games like Candyland.