Tetris Movie In the Works

[VectorGamer]

A film adaptation of the classic ‘80s video game “Tetris” will be falling into theaters sometime in the near future.

 

Threshold Entertainment has teamed up with the Tetris Company to develop a live-action film based on the game. While no directors or cast are attached to the film yet, there is a story in place.

 

“It’s a very big, epic sci-fi movie,” Threshold’s CEO Larry Kasanoff tells Speakeasy exclusively. “This isn’t a movie with a bunch of lines running around the page. We’re not giving feet to the geometric shapes.”

 

Kasanoff’s best known for adapting the “Mortal Kombat” games to the big screen – 1995’s “Mortal Kombat” grossed $70 million according to Boxoffice Mojo, with the 1997 sequel, “Mortal Kombat: Annihilation,” grossing $35 million. For Threshold, they’re hoping to build off the brand’s notoriety and legacy.

 

 

More: http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2014/09/30/tetris-movie/

 

I guess I'm not the visionary I once thought I was - how the heck do you make a movie based on a game of interlocking shapes?

[Reaperman]

Anybody remember that fake trailer from a few years ago.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE_1KlWFJyA

[Dripfree]

Love the game but this is a really stupid idea. Id rather see hungry hungry hippo's or Captain Crunch the movie. I also feel like this is just another hoax.

Edited October 1, 2014 by Dripfree

[Torr]

IF this is true it makes me think two things.

 

Taking an existing video game/premise/idea and casting actors to act it out on screen.

Shows NO creative effort.

 

Taking TETRIS and somehow giving it a story?

You've GOT to be creative.

 

Unfortunately if this come to fruition I fear it will be too much like that mock trailer, only they won't be having a laugh at themselves, they'll truley think there making the next "cutting edge/dark and gritty/I look like I'm making a statement about society but really I'm just throwing every cliche I can at you" type movie.

[+Random Terrain]

I guess I'm not the visionary I once thought I was - how the heck do you make a movie based on a game of interlocking shapes?

 

That's easy. Make a film that is similar to the Cube movies:

 

youtube.com/watch?v=R4N86WL4TvM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4N86WL4TvM

 

Or a group of people might be trapped in a huge room with giant Tetris pieces falling into place and they have to avoid being crushed while trying not to fall to their deaths when a row is cleared.

[mbd30]

You could make a good movie about the real life story of "Tetris" and all the complexities that were involved in trying to get it licensed, etc. But I'm not sure that such a movie has much mainstream potential. So they'll probably go with cute anthropomorphic "Tetris" blocks having an adventure.

[cimerians]

If someone is making a Tetris movie I demand a Defender movie. Throw Asteroids and Berzerk in there as well. What the hell.......Yars Revenge?

 

[BydoEmpire]

http://www.theonion.com/articles/tetris-movie-in-the-works,37071/

[mbd30]

http://www.theonion.com/articles/tetris-movie-in-the-works,37071/

 

 

“It’s gonna be weird watching a movie that shows you what plot points are coming up in the top right corner of the screen.”

 

Oh god, that's great.

[Gabriel]

You can only enter the theater in groups of four. All four of you have to march in formation into the theater to the row closest the screen. When a whole row fills up, you can get up and leave.

[Cynicaster]

Somewhat related, this movie actually was pretty decent:

 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1836974/

[nanochess]

The script writers probably are having a very hard time, once they fill a line, it disappears

[Reaperman]

Anybody remember that fake trailer from a few years ago.

 

Actually, rewatching that trailer fully, it's amazing how close its plot is to the DDR-related comedy The FP.

[Iwantgames:)]

I heard about this movie on the radio today. The guy was saying how movie makers must really be outta ideas to make a movie about blocks

[NinjaWarrior]

So Hollywood lost it now

[Brian O]

This has fail written all over it.

[AtariLeaf]

I heard about this movie on the radio today. The guy was saying how movie makers must really be outta ideas to make a movie about blocks

 

 

[jaybird3rd]

There's just one problem: in the case of Lego, they already had characters in the Lego people. Take all the people out of that poster and there isn't much left to make a movie about.

[Pixelboy]

Well, if this doesn't turn out to be a hoax in the end, I just hope it won't be a clone of Cloak & Dagger, which was a good 80's movie, but one movie of that type is enough.

 

On the other hand, if it turns out to be some kind of clone of Tron, I would likely go see it.

[AtariLeaf]

There's just one problem: in the case of Lego, they already had characters in the Lego people. Take all the people out of that poster and there isn't much left to make a movie about.

 

Morgan Freeman tetris pieces. Problem solved

[NinjaWarrior]

Sadly, people going to pay $15 to see it anyways

[Dripfree]

Been trying to think of what a plot line could possibly be. This is all I can come up with.... Aliens send remote controlled block shaped space ships to terraform earth. We have to hack the controls and stack the blocks in a solid formation so we can start an explosion that will cause a chain reaction blowing up all the blocks. Not a good plot but I can't figure out what the hell else they would do.

[Torr]

That's not exactly Class A Material, but to make a story about Tetris, that's way better than I could ever come up with!

[jaybird3rd]

I agree with Random Terrain: a story in roughly the same vein as the "Cube" movies, maybe with some elements of "Escape Plan", is the approach that probably has the most potential. They just need to be sure to integrate elements of the Tetris gameplay, or else it would be a stretch to call it a "Tetris movie".

 

It would certainly be better than going the typical Disney/Pixar route and anthropomorphizing the Tetris pieces, giving them cutesy names and happy songs, which would be the stupidest and laziest approach.

[Rhomaios]

I agree with Random Terrain: a story in roughly the same vein as the "Cube" movies, maybe with some elements of "Escape Plan", is the approach that probably has the most potential. They just need to be sure to integrate elements of the Tetris gameplay, or else it would be a stretch to call it a "Tetris movie".

 

It would certainly be better than going the typical Disney/Pixar route and anthropomorphizing the Tetris pieces, giving them cutesy names and happy songs, which would be the stupidest and laziest approach.

 

Honestly, making a movie about Tetris is already the stupid and lazy approach.

 

That said, this is all I can think of when I think of Tetris movie, and it's pretty solid, if way too far over the top: