Thirteen (Or So) Ways Of Looking At A Hollywood Knock-Off Of An '80s Video Game
"Universal has acquired the movie rights to Asteroids, the bleeping, blooping 1979 video game in which crude line drawings were used to represent rocket ships and gigantic space rocks. Before the motion picture industry sinks millions of dollars into the project, we'll save it the trouble by imagining how Asteroids would be made into a film by directors like …" (Be sure to check out the reader comments.) New York Times 07/02/09

Posted July 2, 2009 09:00 PM