Asteroids Movie Still Seeks Director

Posted on September 15, 2011

The folks at Collider.com interviewed Roland Emmerich at the Toronto Film Festival the other day, and learned that he’s passed on directing the film adaptation of our beloved game.

It was reported several months ago that the king of apocalyptic blockbusters (Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow, 2012) had been offered the spot, but apparently he’ll be shooting Singularity next, about the moment when the evolution in technology surpasses biology… and starts governing California. Clearly he underestimates the magnitude of a vector-based triangle shooting vector-based polygons. Anyway, we hope someone of equal cinematic genius (for real — we’re fans) will eventually fill the spot.

Lorenzo di Bonaventura (Transformers 2, Imagine That, G.I. Joe) is producing the picture at Universal Studios, with Matt Lopez (Race to Witch Mountain and Bedtime Stories) as writer.  Read more here.

Read the Collider interview here.

Roland Emmerich May Direct Asteroids Movie

Posted on June 09, 2011

New York Magazine’s Vulture site just got the scoop that Roland Emmerich (Stargate, Independence Day, Godzilla, The Day After Tomorrow, 10,000 BC, 2012, Anonymous) has been offered director’s spot on the upcoming Asteroids movie.  This is the first major development news since it was first announced two years ago.

While Emmerich’s films are hit-or-miss, we here at AtariAsteroids.net think he’s a genius.  No one does ridiculous scenarios and go-for-it blockbusters better.  We’d hate for this film to be half-assed, and so far, things are looking good.  IMDb has the release date down as 2014.

Read the Vulture article here.