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14th September 2011 01:29 PM
Darren Allan
Following the mantra that everything retro must be made into a film – who wants to live in the doom-laden now of inflation and economic woe, after all – there’s an old arcade game which is set to be made into a feature flick.
Asteroids. Yes, Asteroids. Quite how they’ll get ninety minutes to two hours of a little spaceship whizzing round blowing up rocks, we’re not sure. Some hyper-spacing, perhaps, for a little variety?
But you can bet it can be done.
And the rumour was back in the summer that Roland Emmerich would be helming this project, which given his pedigree of sci-fi and disaster movies – such as Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow – seemed about right.
Well now it seems about wrong. In a recent interview with Collider, Emmerich confirmed that he wasn’t in fact about to hop on board with the potential rock-buster of a movie.
He was actually offered the job and said he was flattered, but instead chose to pursue a project he’s involved in writing himself.
Namely, another sci-fi flick called Singularity. It’s set forty years into the future when technology starts to get so advanced it becomes dangerous – but he wouldn’t say anything much beyond that.
Aside from the fact that he has a very interesting slant on the whole computers-take-over-the-world theme, and the movie definitely isn’t going to be a traditional “disasterpiece”.
The results should be interesting, as while Emmerich’s films have certainly come in for plenty of critical flak, we’ve always found them watchable.
Filming on Singularity will begin early next year.
Darren Allan
Following the mantra that everything retro must be made into a film – who wants to live in the doom-laden now of inflation and economic woe, after all – there’s an old arcade game which is set to be made into a feature flick.
Asteroids. Yes, Asteroids. Quite how they’ll get ninety minutes to two hours of a little spaceship whizzing round blowing up rocks, we’re not sure. Some hyper-spacing, perhaps, for a little variety?
But you can bet it can be done.
And the rumour was back in the summer that Roland Emmerich would be helming this project, which given his pedigree of sci-fi and disaster movies – such as Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow – seemed about right.
Well now it seems about wrong. In a recent interview with Collider, Emmerich confirmed that he wasn’t in fact about to hop on board with the potential rock-buster of a movie.
He was actually offered the job and said he was flattered, but instead chose to pursue a project he’s involved in writing himself.
Namely, another sci-fi flick called Singularity. It’s set forty years into the future when technology starts to get so advanced it becomes dangerous – but he wouldn’t say anything much beyond that.
Aside from the fact that he has a very interesting slant on the whole computers-take-over-the-world theme, and the movie definitely isn’t going to be a traditional “disasterpiece”.
The results should be interesting, as while Emmerich’s films have certainly come in for plenty of critical flak, we’ve always found them watchable.
Filming on Singularity will begin early next year.
