If the pieces fit, then it’s no puzzle why this famous problem solving game is finally getting a movie.
That was the last of the puns, I promise.
Seriously, though, Threshold Entertainment, the studio that produced the infamously terrible Mortal Kombat films, has teamed up with the Tetris Company to produce a live action movie based on the game, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.
Just how does one turn a game about alternating the pathway of different shapes to perfectly sit atop one another into an action intensive film?
“This isn’t a movie with a bunch of lines running around the page,” Larry Kasanoff, Threshold Entertainment’s CEO, told the Journal. “We’re not giving feet to the geometric shapes.”
Despite his attempt to assure movie goers they wouldn’t be sitting through a two hour play through of a puzzle game (not that we’d necessarily object to that), Kasanoff wouldn’t say much more about the project.
Although, he did reaffirm that the film would be quite good, throwing around the word epic quite a bit.
“What you [will] see in Tetris is the teeny tip of an iceberg that has intergalactic significance,” he said.
Intergalactic significance?
Hold on to your arcade sticks, Tetris may be heading to outer space.
How does one manage to secure the puzzle pieces in a zero-gravity environment space?
