Roland Emmerich, seemingly the inheritor of the “Master of Disaster” title from Irwin Allen, tells Collider that he isn’t going to make a film version of the video game Asteroids.  This is a wise decision because, if you thought that the game Battleship was devoid of plot, Asteroids makes it seem like The Battleship Potemkin.

That being said, I do think that you could take the basis of a game like Asteroids–essentially a ship moving about, shooting at rocks–and incorporate it into an interesting movie.  The same thing can be done with Battleship, though why they would keep either name when many younger movie viewers have heard of neither one is odd.