Universal has won a four studio bidding war for the rights to make a movie of Atari's Asteroids. Asteroids! That's right, there will be an Asteroids movie and there was actually a bidding war for the rights.

Lorenzo di Bonaventura, producer of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and the upcoming G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, is attached to produce. Matthew Lopez, who has worked on Bedtime Stories and Race to Witch Mountain, is penning the movie.

All Lopez has to do is create an entire movie around a triangle that shoots at chunks of rock. Hollywood has, it must be said, had better ideas than developing a movie around a 30 year old game about a bunch of white lines. Maybe Universal should have gone for something with a story? Or characters, maybe.

Pong the Movie, anyone?