Rumour: Rocketman Actor Is Reportedly Attached To A Tetris Movie

So, it's not a movie about intergalactic travel made by the person who brought us FoodFight?

I’m disappointed. I wanted a movie entirely about blocks of different shapes and colours.

Honestly, I was hugely sceptical about this film up until I read it was about the history of the Western IP rights. Recently finished Box Brown's "Tetris: The Games People Play" graphic novel. Super interesting.

Where's our orgin story about tetriminos from outer space?

Looks interesting, and nice to see it's attracted some talented filmmakers. Stan and Ollie was great and Matthew Vaughn's films are generally worth a watch.

A film about the history of Tetris would be far more interesting than any abstract concept that Hollywood would come up with.

But then again, any number of fan-made documentary-style videos on YouTube are likely to provide a more accurate account of the IP's history than what will undoubtedly be a laughably dramatised affair (with a "love" story?) that will hardly reflect the dull reality from which it is based.

I was kind of hoping they attempt to make an adaption of the game itself. Would have been fun to see them try

So an biopic about tetris. Sounds interesting

Oh, I thought it was a film based on Tetris, not the backstory of it. Wondered how they would make dropping blocks to make lines could be made into a film.
Hmm might be quite interesting then, count me in

When this comes out I'll make it a double header and watch Battleship followed by The Tetris Movie.

The Gaming Historian also did a great episode on this topic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fQtxKmgJC8&t=336s

At least they're trying to do something serious since technically there is a story about the Western release. They could have butchered it and tried the CGI a la "Toy Story" approach and made it about that one tetrimino piece (female of course) that just doesn't fit in with the rest of the pieces. They eventually overcome the bullying and make that perfect T-Spin in the end to win the respect of the other tetriminoes (which would be male).

There's already a movie based on it. https://youtu.be/_fQtxKmgJC8

Yeah, that's the right path to go. They can milk the tetrimino's famous designs as much as they want for the promotional material and actuallly manage to do a compelling story. Might even have some interesting touches regarding the Soviet Union's view of technology and cultural differences between the USA? Ok don't let me get my hopes up, I'm actually getting interested

Well, the soundtrack is covered.

Ah, this makes a lot more sense. I remember that article about the trilogy of Tetris sci-fi movies and thought it was really weird. This is a movie I would actually see.

I am very disappointed. A movie about space travel would have been far more exciting. I have zero hype for this.

This would be... interesting.

"Story to focus on the race for IP rights." That actually is a fascinating story and could make for a good drama. If you haven't already, I highly recommend watching Gaming Historian's YouTube video documenting it.

A biopic film about Tetris' legal rights battle? That actually sounds like an interesting character drama. I don't exactly agree with the notion that it had to be a sci-fi fantasy film about falling blocks from the sky for the sake of spectacle. My interest has risen for this film now.

EDIT: Apparently the director is the guy who directed Stan and Ollie as well. Really good choice, he's an amazing comedic director and I'm intrigued by what he'll do for a drama film like this.

@RustedHero wow! You just described like every modern animated kids movie! Impressive

@marandahir @noswitchbutidc took the words out of my mouth!