Asteroids Movie Coming From Universal

I love Asteroids the game. I doubt I'll like Asteroids the movie. If it's anything like Doom the movie, it'll be awful. Will the "story created from scratch" be any different than Armageddon or Space Cowboys? Those and several other straight to DVD movies have been made about destroying asteroids.

I'd rather see a movie about the classic game Defender. While the game doesn't have much more of a story than Asteroids, it does set up a more compelling drama. The hero flys a starship to shoot down alien 'lander' ships before they can carry helpless humans away to be turned into mutant or hybrid alien/human fighting ships. In the game, you both save as many humans as possible and shoot as many alien ships as possible. The hero having to juggle fighting enemy ships in the air with rescuing captive humans before they are carried up to the mother ship to be mutated could provide pretty exciting action scenes. Families struggling to cope with loved ones being abducted would be dramatic.