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Roland Emmerich May Direct the Movie Version of Asteroids | |||
Two Julys ago, Universal Pictures won a four-way bidding war for the rights to turn Atari's 1979 hit arcade game Asteroids into a feature film. How do you take a game about a capital letter A floating about aimlessly in deep space shooting decimal points (or are they periods?) at large, frozen rocks and flying saucers and turn it into a movie? Well, Universal's trying to hire director of destruction Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow, 2012). Read More » | |||
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