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Posted by System Notices (Member # 2357) on 01-14-2011, 05:02 PM:

Atari Bringing Arcade Game Missle Command to the Big Screen

Source: Firstshowing.net

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Following the upcoming Battleship and Asteroids adaptations, Atari has hired writers Burk Sharpless and Matt Sazama to adapt the classic 80s arcade game Missile Command into a feature film. Producer Peter Chernin (Rise of the Apes) is developing the project at his own production company, with Atari exec producing. Sharpless & Sazama recently wrote the Flash Gordon reboot and worked on Dracula Year Zero. Missile Command, which hit in 1980, is one of the simplest games involving firing counter-missiles from the ground to destroy incoming missile attacks from the air. How that will be made into a movie, I have no idea?

There couldn't be a more perfect time to reference a recent James Cameron quote that's spreading around the web. Via Screen Rant: "We have a story crisis they want to make the Battleship game into a film. This is pure desperation." Exactly! And yet here we are, reporting even more depressing news that a classic 8-bit game that involves defending our country by shooting missiles with a trackball is the latest basis behind a big budget action movie that's now in the works. This better be like Red Dawn or else I don't know what the heck to expect. I don't even know if they'll set it in the Cold War or update it to be contemporary, but either way this definitely seems like a desperate attempt to capitalize on a brand that, well, hasn't been around for the last 20 years. Does anyone think a Missile Command movie might actually turn out okay?

Posted by Jesse Skeen (Member # 586) on 01-15-2011, 07:08 PM:

Someone needs to make a movie of "Pong". Have it take place in a super-futuristic environment, and get into the emotional depth of the 2 characters who hit the ball back and forth.

Posted by Mark J. Marshall (Member # 1409) on 01-15-2011, 08:38 PM:

I'd like to see River Raid directed by Michael Bay. In IMAX 3D of course.

Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 01-15-2011, 10:24 PM:

Let's have a movie adaptation of Pitfall! -and do it with Atari 2600 graphics! So many people are so irretrievably stupid about "digital" and willing to settle for ass-quality low resolution imagery blown up to giant sized screens. It's time to take low res to the next level!

Let's do 240 X 240 pixels on a 80 wide screen and then claim its superior to film because it is DIGITAL! Film is so old, analog and archaic!

Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 01-16-2011, 12:07 AM:

Defender would make a good movie.

It is the year 2800. Ten intrepid explorers from Earth have landed on a distant planet and have been exploring when...holy crap! Spacecraft from the plant Zork show up and begin to kidnap the explorers. But suddenly Luke Skywalker III, who had been sent to make repairs on the explorers' ship, arrives and goes into battle with the Zorkians. He is able to survive five waves of attack from the Zorkians, but eventually the explorers are all captured and then all hell breaks loose! The planet explodes and our hero is left in open space with hordes of aliens, all of whom are faster and have more firepower than Skywalker.

What happens next? Well, it'll cost you $10 million to find out. Send me a check.

Posted by Jesse Skeen (Member # 586) on 01-16-2011, 02:45 AM:

Zork was a text adventure game. And that would probably make a decent movie too. [Smile]