Missile Command movie on the way, courtesy of Fox

If you thought that Hollywood's current obsession with remakes and reboots was a sign that its writers are officially running out of ideas, the latest nugget of news to emerge from Tinseltown won't exactly fill you with hope.

According to Variety, 20th Century Fox has struck a deal with Atari to adapt the 31-year-old videogame, Missile Command, for the big screen. If you're not familiar with the cold war arcade classic, it involved protecting a series of vulnerable bases from falling nuclear warheads.

Appearing briefly in Fast Times At Ridgemont High in 1982, and also making a cameo in Terminator 2 almost 10 years later, Missile Command is, like most classic arcade games, entirely without plot.

A lack of plot seldom deters Hollywood executives, of course, and the game's premise at least gives its writers, said to be Burk Sharpless and Matt Sazama, the excuse to pepper the screen with lots of explosions.

We're anxiously awaiting the announcement of a Frogger adaptation, in which Jack Black, dressed as an amphibian, spends 90 minutes attempting to cross a busy main road. Watch out for that truck, Jack!

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