Coming to a theater near you: the TETRIS MOVIE A US film studio has confirmed it is planning to make a movie based on the video game Tetris. Threshold Entertainment has been named as the developer for the feature length film, according to a Wall Street Journal report. The company said that the film would not actually be about arranging blocks to form lines, but rather …
What many people know as the 'Tetris Tune' from the Gameboy version is a nineteenth-century Russian folk song that tells of a meeting between a peddler and a girl, in which they haggle over the price of goods in a veiled metaphor for courtship.
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But yeah, I can't work out any link to falling bricks.
However, a system that allowed customers to take part in a Tetris tournament on a big cinema screen (perhaps by using their smartphones as controllers) could be fun!
Me, I prefer the "A Complete History Of The Soviet Union As Told By A Humble Worker, Arranged To The Melody Of Tetris" version...
"Do they think that the association between a decades-old puzzle game will drive people into movie theatres to see it?"
No, but it might give them more opportunities for publicity and hype, with sites that may not normally be focused on the movie-biz willing to publish articles on it... such as El Reg.
quote: "Surely with such a tenuous link between whatever storyline is in the movie, and the original game there's really no reason to call it Tetris? Do they think that the association between a decades-old puzzle game will drive people into movie theatres to see it?"
Usually works for Uwe Boll, and he's equally incapable of making a good game-related film ^^;
I thought Battleship could have been a great film, if it had been based on the game, two forces trying to destroy the others naval fleet.....
but instead they turned it into a strange Sci-Fi film with a weird ending involving an old battleship....
I love sci fi films but that was just weird...
But as soon as work on such a trilogy is announced then those cheap knock-off studios (like The Asylum) will bring out their own trilogy of the films called "Noughts and Crosses!". And when they've run out of ideas the next logical film to make would be "Connect 4"...
If memory serves, Tetris has a convoluted international story about its copyright. Throw in some peril (rampaging lawyers, armed russian gangsters (well, KGB) Enforcing the copyright) and you could have a decent drama movie. Maybe blocks falling into place as the link to show that an action is done and you're moving on. Fades to cities crated by falling blocks arranging to make the city's skyline then fading in the buildings.
The Lego movie wasn't about lego, it was about a small boy's creation. ai don't think they used the term Lego once in the film. And it was still Awesome. Tetris could do the same.
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...except this time the aliens dreading our obvious naval prowess decide play it safe and nuke us from orbit - it's a kinetic bombardment with funny-shaped projectiles, no less. The world seems doomed until a young, rebellious misfit accidentally realizes stacking them tightly makes them annihilate themselves harmlessly. The stakes are raised once again as the aliens step up to cosmic speeds...
The plot revolves around a veteran script writer tasked with making Tetris into a movie.
After months of writing crap after crap drafts his mind starts to crack, the tetris blocks start super imposing themselves into his life. His apartment becomes full of badly stacked objects.
From this point you've got two directions.
Torture Porn, where he starts using humans as the shapes.
or descent into madness, where more and more of his life is ruled by stacking blocks of objects.
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