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Atari has given Universal Pictures the nod to create a film based on the Asteroids IP.

Matthew Lopez, writer of Race to Witch Mountain and The Sorcerer's Apprentice, and Lorenzo di Bonaventura - producer of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and GI Joe: The Rise of the Cobra - are confirmed as onboard, writes The Hollywood Reporter.

There are no details on plot or cast, although the licence involves little that the film studio must actually follow - the original arcade game had no plot, just a spaceship and some rocks.

In other less surprising news, a fourth Resident Evil film is on the way:

Actress Milla Jovovich has apparently confirmed reports that she's working on another Resident Evil film.

Speaking to paparazzi in a video posted on YouTube, picked up by ShockTillYouDrop.com (thanks Kotaku Australia), Jovovich said, "We're going to start shooting at the end of the year."

Not that you can actually hear what she's responding to, but when asked which film she's talking about, she added, "Number four."

There have of course been three Resident Evil films - all fantastic, as everyone knows - and the same site had earlier reported that a Sony Pictures insider had said film four was called Resident Evil: Afterlife, and that it would be in cinemas next September.

Director Paul W. S. Anderson is also thought to be attached.

The last film in the series, Resident Evil: Extinction, saw heroine Alice (played by Jovovich) uncovering and part-destroying an underground facility run by the Umbrella Corporation in which a mad scientist was mass-producing Alice clones.

She seemed to be getting friendly with her other selves towards the end, so perhaps she will - as ShockTillYouDrop suggests - depart for Tokyo and exact her revenge at the head of an army of clones.

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if it's true (can it really be true?) you'd imagine that at some point in the film, there will be a spaceship shooting at asteroids - i wonder if they will be true to the game so if anything goes off the edge of the screen it'll re-appear at the opposite side of the screen?

also i demand pong, pang and bomb jack films next.

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maybe its going to be about the history of the game, the makers, the impact it had. Like a biopic.

Thats the only thing that would make any sense IMO, other wise wouldn't this have been made in the early 80's?

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