Hollywood has been often turning to video video games as inspiration for blockbusters, and the newest deal to place pixels on the large display options Atari. Deadline stories that the sport model has inked a partnership with Common Footage for the rights to adapt ten of its properties for the large display. The deal consists of Asteroids, Journey, Berzerk, Breakout, Centipede, Crystal Castles, Millipede, Missile Command, Pong and Yars’ Revenge.
Common has already purchased a screenplay centered on one of many Atari titles, though it did not specify which or if the proposed film could be an Atari Cinematic Universe combining properties. The spec script is by Matt Reilly and Carl Hampe and will probably be produced by Guymon Casady at Leisure 360.
“The most effective Atari video games dropped you right into a world and let your creativeness do the remaining,” Casady stated. “Carl and Matt noticed a possibility to take that very same spirit and construct an authentic, large-scale journey round it. From the second we learn the screenplay, we believed there was a fantastic film right here.”
“For greater than 5 many years, Atari has created video games and worlds which have remained a part of fashionable tradition lengthy after their authentic launch,” Atari Chairman and CEO Wade Rosen instructed Deadline. “We’re excited to work with Common and Leisure 360 to deliver the spirit of our iconic model and video games to a brand new medium.”
Common had beforehand picked up the rights for an adaptation of Asteroids again in 2009, however nothing made it to display within the interim.
