A Tetris Movie is in the Making

I'll BLOCK your page if you keep FILLING my timeLINE with this.

K thanks.

I'm trying to imagine the best way to spell "WTF" using only Tetris pieces.

...Where've you been? lol

"Not all you think; it will be a cool surprise" obviously hinted Tetris will have special guest stars Link and Samus right?! What do you mean that makes no sense!'

Oh one can only hope

@DarthNocturnal They're making (Or did it come out a few days ago?) an Angry Birds Movie. I give up on lief m8

I'd love to be surprised with maybe a tale of a game tournement like the Wizard or something, but more than likely it'll be falling giant blocks attacking Hong Kong or something.

One has to prepare themselves for this film like they do when watching the movie "Battleship." If you expect it to be a B rated movie, it isn't that bad.

So it's not a documentary, it's a sci-fi movie about... blocks.

Freaking L Blocks.
What's that you say? It'll be a trilogy? Welp. Guess what! Trust me, it'll be pretty good. I have ideas. Imagine... some chinese dudes spot a red block. These blockd attack Hong Kong in various colors, commanded by an unknown figure. To defeat these blocks, people will learn that they have to stack them. However, due to the circumstances, findinding an area to out them horizontally is a challenge. These blocks are called Tetral, led by the mysterious figure they call Tetris. Special weapons are made to destroy the Tetral, so you can stack them efficiently. They also serve the purpose of immobilizing/tripping them. In this state, they can be moved and stacked with ease. That is all in the first 20 minutes, with a lot more explained before, about the world.

I'll remain cautiously optimistic for this one, but I really wonder what they're thinking. Guess we'll find out soon enough.

Well China is just getting into the game industry so this is just them going through their Super Mario Bros the Movie phase.

Why China? Why not Russia dammit? The Tetris box did indeed says, "From Russia with Fun!" Hollywood, why you always make no sense?

How... why... HOW WHY?!?! >_<

Maybe it will be some sort of Tetris competion theme in the same vein as The Wizard.

Hopefully it'll turn out better than their cameo in Pixels.

...oh no!..somebody call Dr. Mario!..someone has tetris syndrome...

You know the video game tie in for the movie will be lousy.

Why? It makes no sense and I'm thinking this could be Pixels level bad. What exactly would be the plot?

@Rob_mc_1 Tetris the Movie : The Videogame,which will somehow be significantly worse than the 30 year old game the movie was based on.

Surely it should be a 4 film series given the size of each piece and the subtle 'tetr' prefix of the game's title?

.. SHARK..er..I mean TETRISNADO!

Is it April Fools again already?

Next in line will be the successfull story of a Pong line, from district tournament to world champion!

I will keep an eye on this blockbuster.......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWTFG3J1CP8
Complete History Of The Soviet Union, Arranged To The Melody Of Tetris

I hope this one is super dumb and turns out to be ironically enjoyable. I love dumb movies like that.

@retro_player_22 It says that because the game was created in Russia.

Anyways, what is going on? all the film will be is a load of people running around shouting "WHY ARE YOU GIVING ME THIS T BLOCK? I NEED THE STRAIGHT LINE DAMN IT!!"

Maybe it'll be a rehash of Terrahawks but with Tetris pieces, instead of the Cubes...

Or maybe it'll be like Battleship where they manage to shoehorn in the style of gameplay... And yes I'm weird, despite its cheesy story and acting, as a volume at max, popcorn movie I actually like Battleship...

I just hope the CGI isn't too blocky

A trilogy? Should be a tetralogy.

Pretty sure I heard about a Tetris movie being in development awhile back. So filming is going to start next year huh.
Also, should be 4 movies. Tetris, teronimo, tetra, 4.
Well, 1 movie is already probably too much. Just what is the plot meant to be anyway?

Maybe it will be like Cube movies but with Tetris blocks?

I honestly don't believe what I'm reading. This all sounds like the sort of nonsense that would show up in a dream… or as an April Fool's joke.

I'm speechless… I really, really do not believe what I'm reading.

And why China? Isn't Tetris based in Russia? And what the hell kind of plot would a Tetris movie even have?

What's next? PONG: The Movie? Arkanoid: The Movie? Freakin' SOLITAIRE: The Movie? This is such complete and utter stupidity and inanity that no degree of inebriation could help me compute this.

@retro_player_22 Unless Russia were somehow the villains, can't see Hollywood, China or any other country having them in a film these days. It's set and made in China because that's where the money is.

Minesweeper:The Movie

I'm expecting the plot to be confusingly complex, but in the end it all falls nicely into place

And I'm expecting it to be about a centuries old war between the compassionate and helpful 4x1 blocks and the terrorist 2x2 blocks (aided and abetted by the socially awkward S and Z twins as comedic relief) with the innocent Ls andTs caught in the crossfire.

And you know what the sausage in this pic is saying.

Pixels 2? And 3 and 4.

Alien blocks are attacking Earth, only one hero with a gravity gun can make them fall in a perfect line and make them disappear.

On the 2nd and 3rd movie, they'll fall faster.

Seriously, people are running out of ideas.

..not sure how they'll ever spin a story that fits...

im not even sure how on earth they could do a movie base on tetris, i just hope it's good

@PanurgeJr How about an L block, a reverse L block, a T block, and two more reverse L blocks?

@MysteryAozz Well, they somehow came up with an outlandish plot to turn "Battleship" into a movie. The problem is that movie sucks.

For a moment in thought it was like a documentary/fine arts/based on a true story movie (like race ,ip man) were it would be about how tetris was created all the way until Pajitnov ending up in America.....but this is just not my cup of tea

Is this a joke? All these games movies, now a movie about a simple puzzle game before Nintendo comes out with (a good) one. I know they announced they are getting into that business but I feel like I have heard that before.

this one is better

@SH007ME Hopefully it'll fall in line with expectations

Okay??? This makes no sense!

A Tetris film? That's going to be a sci-fi thriller? And we're being "blessed" with three of them? With the promise of it being, and I quote, "a cool surprise"?

XD

... Brought to you by the man that made the horrid mortal kombat movies... and food fight.

So the 1st movie will be amazing.....the 2nd movie will be the exact same movie as the 1st only in black and white so you can watch it on inferior hardware and then every movie after will just suck?

As a side note, I once got 271 lines on my nes Tetris

Is it April 1st already?

Trilogy? That's just plain wrong. It should be a tetralogy, obviously!

How?! That's like making a movie out of Pong.

I...just...WHAT!?

Tetris cosplay ftw!

The only thing I can think of, is an alien civilization that gets the idea to create its own planet, civilization, etc, out of materials similar to Tetris blocks, with some weird mysterious energy source running through them.

This energy source becomes a source of conflict, and something threatens to make that energy run out of control.
If it does, the planet they created would start to disappear.
One row at a time, from the core on up.
Until there's nothing left.
At which point, the energy would explode outward to cause all sorts of mayhem in the universe.

Movie one would be about the failure to stop this energy from running wild, due to an idiotic evil villain type thinking he can control it for his own purposes and failing to do so, and the subsequent destruction of the planet as the energy escapes outwards, while a small group of survivors escapes from the ensuing destruction, heading towards a planet that is rumored to have some sort of ancient information tied to stopping the energy.

Movie two: the energy reaches Earth, ironically, but not unexpectedly, the very planet that holds the key information that could stop the energy wave, and starts infecting the planet, turning things into Tetris blocks and inseminating the dangerous energy throughout the planet like a virus.

At the end, the heroes of the film, both Earthlings and aliens alike, manage to reach some sort of "core", but are halted and turned back by the defensive measures of the sentience behind the Tetris energy, who turns out to be the same villain that failed to control it in the first place, now coincidentally fused with the energy that exploded outward when the Tetris planet that the alien heroes came from was destroyed by the rampant energy.
Before driving the protagonists off with the defenses, it is explained that he feels he should be a God, and that every time the Tetris energy runs rampant and destroys something, he gets just a little bit stronger from the ensuing energy feedback.
Thus his plan; destroy as much as he can, and when he's strong enough to form an immortal body made of Tetris energy, use it to take over the known universe.

Movie three: Having failed to stop the Tetris sentience with their own power, the alien and Earthling heroes and heroines now begin searching for the rumored ancient information that could stop the Tetris energy from completely taking over Earth.
Love and close friendships form between the heroes and heroines in a trial-by-fire, as the minions of the sentience do everything in their power to stop the group of saviors from finding the information that could halt the sentience's plans.

In a race against time, they're led to a museum where a single black-and-white game boy, which somehow survived a nuclear war and still works despite looking distinctly half-melted [this is actually a real thing; look it up!] somehow managed to absorb energy from the Tetris planet long before it ever exploded [apparently the energy is much more prevalent in the Universe than everyone thought; potential for more sequels follows this] and now holds the key data needed to stop the Tetris sentience.

They race back to the core, with a link cable, fresh batteries, and the melted GB in hand, connect it to the main computer of the sentience after somehow getting past its defenses, and suddenly, holographic screens pop up in front of the whole team, showing different sections of the planet alongside, you guessed it, a complete game of Tetris in front of each individual protagonist, with a set amount of lines that all of them MUST clear.
It's a race against the clock, and the sentience, to clear a certain amount of lines before the Sentience can fully transform the planet into one made of Tetris blocks.

Cue dramatic music and the scene of the planet slowly recovering as the team rapidly clears line after line on the holographic screens, finally culminating in a moment where they've cleared so many lines that there's literally no more energy left, and the sentience finally dies as the black and white game boy fades away in a multicolored light.
Some closure happens between the various protagonists, and then the aforementioned "the universe still has Tetris energy in it!" thing is brought into play when the beam of light that the melted GB disappeared into, is shown flying off to a whole new planet...
Was the villain really killed? Is this a new threat, or a chance at a new adventure and possibly a benefit to Earth through recovery, and reformation, of the energy into something positive? Or will it be just a continuation of the need to stamp out Tetris energy once and for all?

.....
Too much?
I just started typing and then I couldn't seem to stop...^^;;

Had to make this for my facebook page.

I discovered leaked titles for the trilogy in the bathroom stall of a Taco Bell. They are:

TETRIS 1: The Quest For The Line Segment
TETRIS 2: The Second Player Rises
TETRIS V Dr. Mario: Dawn Of The Clones

This is going to be Epic!

@RantingThespian See kids; this is why you don't CHUG PACKETS of the new Ghost Pepper sauce at Taco Bell...XD JK

Worst. idea. ever.

While it might be everyone's first instinct to mock this due to the source material, nostalgia forces me to be optimistic at this early stage. Like, if you make an awesome adventure, with an eventual Tetris tournament, and lots of fan service and references it could work. Sadly, if the ppl making this didn't experience the Tetris phenomenon in its heyday, then I question their intentions and passion here (cash grab). "Filming in China" is where they lost my hopes. All Chinese cast? Arghhh

THIS MOVIE IS MADE BY THE TEAM BEHIND FOODFIGHT!!! Lawrence "Larry" Kasanoff directed, produced and wrote it! The only good thing that came out of this piece of garbage was a funny JonTron episode.

I'm surprised they're not making this a tetrology...
heh heh

Why is this even a thing? You can't make a movie out of Tetris. Though Captain N had two episodes based on Tetris.

@MitchVogel
..ha, yea..but if it's looking bad now.. it's not to late to turn things around...

You know you all will be Russian to see this!

I mean..... if the guy could make Foodfight! happen after a decade of production woes, I have to believe it's literally possible this will exist. I mean, it'd be a nightmare, but it might just happen.

Obviously they expect this to be a BLOCKBUSTER hit. I'm just not so sure though. I think they should drop it, fast.

Haha, we'll see what happens here. Strange.

@SH007ME Hopefully, the three movies fit together nicely

@MitchVogel
Lol..hope so, if one bombs and the director goes down, he'll surely take everyone with him...

It doesn't sound as bad as Sony's Emoji movie currently in development. No seriously look it up.

Maybe they could base it on this M-rated piece of fanfiction by Kigono:
“The fat square block moved over to the right. The long light blue block saw the square coming and moved to the left. The square suddenly moved to the left and landed next to the other block, and they shared a long moment together as more blocks came. THE END”