Wait, they’re making a Tetris movie?! What the heck!? Ohhhhhhh… it’s not another Battleship scenario!
Rocketman and Kingsman star Taron Egerton has nabbed the starring role in the movie which chronicles the crazy past of the world’s most addictive video game.
“[Egerton] will portray Henk Rogers, the Dutch-born, Hawaii-based video game entrepreneur (he’s now an environmental philanthropist) who, towards the end of the Cold War, in the late 1980s, became embroiled in a high-stakes legal battle involving a Soviet computer programming agency, and software companies controlled by the late Robert Maxwell and his son Kevin.
“At the heart of the dispute was Tetris, the addictive console game created by Alexey Pajitnov, a Russian programmer, which Nintendo loaded onto its Game Boy devices.
After many skirmishes with the Maxwells and other parties, Rogers managed to secure the intellectual property rights to Tetris for himself — and for Pajitnov. Up until that point, the Russian had not seen a penny of the tens of millions of pounds raked in by the simple game he’d designed.”
Tetris will be directed by Stan & Ollie’s Jon S Baird with shooting planning on a September start.
I really thought this was going to be about aliens invading in giant four-block spaceships.I’m not sure if i’m relieved or bitterly disappointed.
Anyway, what say you all? Let me know…
Marc
Marc is a self-confessed nerd. Ever since seeing Star Wars for the first time around 1979 he’s been an unapologetic fan of the Wars and still believes, with Clone Wars and now Underworld, we are yet to see the best Star Wars. He’s a dad of two who now doesn’t have the time (or money) to collect the amount of toys, comics, movies and books he once did, much to the relief of his long-suffering wife. In the real world he’s a graphic designer. He started Following the Nerd because he was tired of searching a million sites every day for all the best news that he loves and decided to create one place where you can go to get the whole lot. Secretly he longs to be sitting in the cockpit of his YT-1300 Corellian Transport ship with his co-pilot Chewie, roaming the universe, waiting for his next big adventure, but feels just at home watching cartoons with his kids….
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