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Live-Action Tetris Movie Secures $80 Million Funding, Plans To Be Part Of A Trilogy (arstechnica.com)
An anonymous reader writes: In 2014, Threshold Entertainment announced it would be producing a live-action film based on the Russian stacking game Tetris. Today, Threshold Entertainment announced it had secured $80 million in funding for the project. Threshold's Larry Kasanoff has worked on the Mortal Kombat film in 1995, which grossed $70 million. Media mogul Bruno Wu, will serve as co-producer on the film ensuring that the movie will be able to sustain any unplanned budget overruns. According to Deadline, the film is planned for a 2017 release with Chinese locations and a Chinese case. However, Kasanoff notes "the goal is to make world movies for the world market." What's more is that the movie could be the basis of a trilogy, the producer says, with a plot that's "not at all what you think; it will be a cool surprise." Kasanoff told the Wall Street Journal that "this isn't a movie with a bunch of lines running around the page. We're not giving feet to the geometric shapes... What you [will] see in Tetris is the teeny tip of an iceberg that has intergalactic significance."
I'm still waiting for the movie adaption of "Pong."
"-1 Troll" is the apparently the same as "-1 I disagree with you."
It will be complete and utter garbage with next to nothing to do with the actual game. Receiving less than 10% on metacritic overall.
This is a bio pic about Alexy Pajitnov right?
And xians. I had one as a roommate that loved watching people smarter than him, which was everyone, play Tetris.
The announcement could've been for a second M. Night Shyamalan "Avatar: The Last Airbender" movie.
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Dammit, McTetris, I'm getting way to old for this shit.
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So as to be not a total waste.
Xians love that kid from Growing Pains. That proves they're not that smart.
me to see rotating block figures even when not playing the game, at everything I looked at, with or without my eyes closed, and in my dreams. Then there was the melody stuck in my head. And finally... Nintendo thumb syndrome.
....will this be ABOUT?!?!?!
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When you put people in groups, the ones that don't fit the group exactly will surprise you in possibly quite terrifying ways.
Only a Republican would enjoy watching someone else play Tetris.
That's because they like things that trickle down.
Then would this video of fast play leading up to Invisible Tetris and this video of Shirase mode in TGM3 make you a card-carrying member of the GOP?
(Hint: The bleeps when each piece spawns signal what the next piece will be.)
But how would a biopic spin Mr. Pajitnov's claim that free software destroys the market?
And for those of us without a connection fast enough to play a YouTube video? Like in the Seattle area...
we need a movie for taipan, the old trs-80 (maybe others) game.
print "elder brother wu has sent "; rnd(0)*382; " braves to meet you, taipan!"
ok, well.... maybe we don't need a movie for that. forget I even mentioned it.
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"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
Had a connection more than 100 times faster when I live in Georgia 15 years ago than I now have in Seattle. It sucks missing out on YouTube, Netflix, HBO Go, etc..
Here's the obligatory 13 year-old Penny-Arcade comic about this topic:
https://www.penny-arcade.com/c...
The music better be the right one!
And it has to start all inception-slow and never stop, always slowly slowly speeding up!
I'm in Seattle and I have 1Gbps both ways thanks to CenturyLink fiber.
but if it's anything like this trailer I will go to the midnight showing https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Okay so you picked the wrong location for the movie and you just ruined what is probably the major "surprise" of the movie.
Got any more spoilers for us?
How is Uwe Boll not attached to this?
For a long time, I've thought that the movie industry was scraping the bottom of the barrel. Endless sequels and unheard-of shite.
Now it seems we've moved to making movies of anything that anyone has ever heard of, no matter how related to an actual movie they could actually be.
And I haven't bought a cinema ticket in years, purchased a DVD in years (except second-hand), bought a Blu-Ray at all, and if it isn't on Amazon Prime or Google Play Movies, pretty much I can't be bothered with it and the things I've bought on there are with promotional credit, huge discounts, and movies that I know I already love.
Honestly, there's times when you just look at things and think "Where the fuck did all that good stuff I enjoyed go to?".
Apart from The Imitation Game (story of my hero), The Martian (that was a big mistake), I can't think of anything I've bought since... years ago. And with shite like this getting the money, it's hardly a surprise.
I'm in Seattle with shotgunned 128K ISDN. Can't even get DSL.
Thanks, now I have to go find some Limbaugh podcasts.
Silence is a state of mime.
Trilogy? Shouldn't it be a tetralogy?
The Dark Pixel Youtube channel put out a trailer for their vision of a Tetris live action movie, it's worth a watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Why not go for four in a row?
Just like that idiotic attempt by Adam Sandler. I hope his hand is still on fire.
Tetris? Even Doom (whose storyline seems more like a justification for the art direction) got a movie? Think about Halo, Half Life, Borderlands/2, Portal 2, maybe even Prey, for example, who have a fair amount of potential in their storylines to make a movie that didn't suck. Not that they are immune to bad direction, but you know damn well there are some _rich_ universes/stories out there that could be outstanding in a film.
edit - captcha: arguable
The movie based on Battleship was... acceptable. So sometimes a movie taking inspiration from a simple game can work.
The strangest thing about that movie is that Michael Bay had nothing to do with it, yet it copies his style so exactly people tend to assume it was one of his.
No way. We need a tetralogy (tetrilogy?). Only then is the series complete and we can obliterate it from our collective memory.
There is an extremely offending shoah-themed joke regarding live action tetris. I don't think it should be made into a movie.
Live-Action Tetris Movie
Yeah. I'm sure the plot for that won't be contrived as hell.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
It's just a matter of time...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7ZGsD3REhQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... It was truly hilarious the first time I saw this. Maybe they can pull off a humor angle... though a trilogy is probably a stretch.
-- "This world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel."
Like taking over a wildlife reserve warden's station ?
Scary, but mitigated by the fact that although they may remember to bring guns they apparently aren't smart enough to pack things like food and blankets...
Unicode killed the ASCII-art *
>That's because they like things that trickle down.
It's sort of the perfect metaphor, because from one angle you watch it trickling down and from the other end you watch it disapear.
Unicode killed the ASCII-art *
Who arranges the blocks that fall from up above.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Just hire these guys..
"What you [will] see in Tetris is the teeny tip of an iceberg that has intergalactic significance."
You simply can't trust a guy who uses metaphors like this. What the heck does this mean? When has an iceberg had intergalactic significance? Is he talking about a comet?
Seattlites are such cunts. You KNOW if you live there there are 3 neighborhoods with gig. So clearly you realize most of seattle doesn't have gig.
Glad I left that piece of shit town.
All-in-all, Battleship wasn't that bad a movie. I have *no* idea why they decided to tie it to the game of the same name, but realistically for a sea-combat-with-aliens type movie it was better than expected, certainly better than Pixels (but then again, that's pretty par for a Sandler flick these days).
As silly as it is, I'd rather see them release a movie based on a fairly simplistic game concept than butcher the plot of a more in-depth game (e.g. Doom). I enjoyed "Wreck it Ralph" which was cute - ok, a little too cute sometimes but good for kids - and game-based, but again it had its own canon and wasn't really feasting on the corpse of an established story. The little snippets like Zangief's speedo were good for a chuckle too.
Idea 1) basically copy 'the last starfighter' that an intergalactic / interdimensional group seeds this game to find genius minds who can pilot vehicles / fight.
Idea 2) Playing tetris is revelaed to be an ancient game - with a tournament on an island. Some basic story as Enter the Dragon (or BeerFest or Mortal Kombat)
3 movies?
It's Tetris, should be 4 movies!
On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
And for those of us without a connection fast enough to play a YouTube video? Like in the Seattle area...
This is like the third thread I've seen today with people moaning about Seattle internet. Sounds like it really sucks but do you all have an agreement to to all the complaining ion one day or something?
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April fools was over 1 1/2 months ago...
A TETRIS movie?
There were no characters or story to that game...
WTF is wrong with people....
that the movies fit together nicely.
Yes, i'm sure that a movie about Tetris will be a real blockbuster.
"We're not giving feet to the geometric shapes... What you [will] see in Tetris is the teeny tip of an iceberg that has intergalactic significance."
"Greetings, Starfighter. You have been recruited by the Star League to defend the frontier against Xur and the Ko-Dan armada."
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.
If you want some Rush Limbaugh to listen to on your portable music player, Amazon Music is selling the only good part of a Limbaugh show for $1.29.
Then you didn't plan.
Tetris games since 2001 use the "bag" randomizer, which deals out one shuffling of all 7 pieces, then another shuffling of all seven pieces, etc. Thus the maximum gap between two "I" Tetriminos is 12, if one bag begins with an I and the next bag ends with an I. In addition, Tetris games since 2001 have the "hold piece" feature, letting the player save an I and use it later.
In 2007, colour_thief and I proved that the bag randomizer and hold piece make it possible to play forever. Then in 2014, Question_Mark produced a shorter loop.
What you [will] see in Tetris is the teeny tip of an iceberg that has intergalactic significance."
The game is actually a portal that is activated when blocks are placed in a specific complex configuration over, like, 1,000 levels. The world grandmaster Tetris champion unintentionally opens the portal during a competition and our lives are forever transformed.
Or something like that.
It is unwise to ascribe motive
nuts to that - give us a leisure suit larry movie.
when religion is no longer the opiate of the masses, governments will resort to real opiates.
It was called "The forbidden kingdom", and it was a chinese movie starring Jackie Chan. The plot was about searching a long stick, that everybody desired, but that was located far away in the future.
If it is so bad, why do you choose to live there?
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?