{"id":3672,"date":"2009-07-02T16:34:46","date_gmt":"2009-07-02T15:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=3672"},"modified":"2009-07-02T17:45:15","modified_gmt":"2009-07-02T16:45:15","slug":"universal-gearing-up-for-asteroid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/universal-gearing-up-for-asteroid\/","title":{"rendered":"Universal gearing up for Asteroids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/phqoausutv8nur.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3677 alignright\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 10px;\" title=\"phqoausutv8nur\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/phqoausutv8nur-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"phqoausutv8nur\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/hr\/content_display\/film\/news\/e3ic3a4730761c7eaf6aac2de4e28ef8e67\">The Hollywood Reporter <\/a>has announced that Universal is setting its sights on a remake of the classic arcade game Asteroids. This acquisition apparently came after a bidding war between four studios.<\/p>\n<p>Transformers producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura is on board to oversee this project, and Disney newbie Matthew Lopez will write a first draft of the script.<\/p>\n<p>Asteroids was released in 1979 and put gamers in the seat of a triangular spaceship. The aim of the game was to then traverse space while zapping countless asteroids and the odd UFO. It proved to be a big success and spawned three sequels in Asteroids Deluxe, Space Duel and Blasteroids. The game didn\u2019t follow any real narrative path, so with a blank canvas to work from Universal can take this possible franchise in any direction.<\/p>\n<p>Asteroids is in the very early stages of production and at this time there are no details regarding dates of release and casting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hollywood Reporter has announced that Universal is setting its sights on a remake of the classic arcade game Asteroids. This acquisition apparently came after a bidding war between four studios.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[140,3],"tags":[899],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/phqoausutv8nur.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3672"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}