The upcoming Tetris movie – which charts the fight to win the rights to the video game which would become a cultural phenomenon and help Nintendo launch the Game Boy – is currently in production, and we already know that Golden Globe winner Taron Egerton is taking on the role of Dutch businessman Henk Rogers while Nikita Efremov will play Alexey Pajitnov.
However, we've now gotten wind of another inspired piece of casting, with the superb Roger Allam stepping into the considerable shoes of the late Robert Maxwell, whose company, Mirrorsoft, was one of the bidders for the home format rights to Tetris.
Not that you'd instantly recognise Allam under all of those prosthetics – he really does look like Maxwell:
Allam has enjoyed a distinguished career on both stage and screen; you might recognise him from Game of Thrones, V for Vendetta and Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.
Tetris is being directed by Jon S. Baird and will launch exclusively on Apple TV+ in the near future. Togo Igawa has been cast as the late Nintendo boss Hiroshi Yamauchi. Filming was completed in March.
Thanks to Nick Webber for the tip!
[source twitter.com]
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this should be an interesting movie
Who is playing the "T" piece?
@DoctorShrunk Ice T
@DoctorShrunk I've got Stephen Merchant for the long tetromino, which is apparently officially called "Hero".
I wonder if they will mention how Tetris has shown to help with people with ptsd symptoms - https://youtu.be/2sKX7hqbJNQ
@Wezi Interesting, the music kind of triggers my SO...
I was unaware of Robert Maxwell's role in the Tetris story. I'm not sure I want to be aware...
@JDig unofficially...
The exciting battle over Tetris rights.
Who needs a Metroid movie
@DoctorShrunk Who else than Mr. T of course ?
This still sounds better than that stupid idea for a Tetris sci fi trilogy from a few years back. Kinda curious how that would've gone tho...
So it's not really a Tetris movie, more like a Tetris documentary in movie form. There's a difference between making a movie about Ryu and Ken and a movie about the guys who make the game about Ryu and Ken and this movie is gear towards the latter.
@Ghost_of_Hasashi You can already find the history of Tetris on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fQtxKmgJC8&
Very interesting video.
@sanderev That may as well be the actual Tetris movie.
@sanderev
I was gonna post this, too. Brilliantly done and very informative. He really outdid himself in this one.
What's the story gonna be like?
@sanderev Now that's a great film, I need to watch The Gaming Historian more...
@TryToBeHopeful is this a photoshop?
https://t.co/SvtxvIcUz6 https://twitter.com/vecchitto/status/1099748313862234114?s=20
@JDig yep.
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