14 DAY TRIAL // Production Studio Threshold Entertainment announced that it's planning to make a feature length film based on Tetris, the popular block-stacking video game that everyone in the world has played in some form or another.
Tetris was created in 1984, and being featured in a movie is far from the game's greatest feature; Tetris is the first video game to have left the shackles of gravity and be transported to outer space. In addition to these, it's fair to say that it's seen significantly more knock-offs than Flappy Bird and Swing Copters combined.
This isn't the first time a seemingly simplistic and reductively abstract game gets a big screen adaptation. Before Tetris, Battleship made a few waves, translating the grid-based gameplay of the classic board game to film in a pretty gimmicky manner.
In any case, here's hoping that Threshold Entertainment will do a better job with Tetris than it did with Mortal Kombat and its sequel, back in 1995 and 1997.
The idea behind the popular puzzle game dates to way before computers managed to enter our world in physical form, and mankind has been toying with the basic shapes that the game uses since antiquity, only now achieving the necessary technical acumen to properly render the blocks in a movie.
Shooting for the stars
The falling block puzzle game will get a proper film adaptation in partnership with the official Tetris Company, a dramatic science fiction opus, according to the official blurb.
"Everyone knows that Tetris is one of the best known, most beloved brands in the world," Threshold head Larry Kasanoff explained. "What everyone doesn't know yet is this epic sci-fi story that we're going to tell. That's what's really exciting," he continued.
For the time being, there is no information regarding what the film's story will be about, and neither regarding actors, writers or director, but the company hinted that we'll get to see more about Tetris soon.
One thing is for certain though, if Michael Bay gets the director's seat, those blocks won't ever get to the bottom of the screen in one piece. And the straight piece will get resurrected at the end to save the day.
"We look forward to partnering with Threshold Entertainment to re-imagine that common experience and bring a spectacular new Tetris universe to the big screen for the first time," Tetris chief Henk Rogers stated, as quoted by Eurogamer.
We'll keep our ears open for further developments.