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Live-Action Tetris Movie Secures $80 Million Funding, Plans To Be Part Of A Trilogy (arstechnica.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the animated-classics dept.

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."

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  1. Pong by harrkev · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm still waiting for the movie adaption of "Pong."

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    1. Re:Pong by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      They cancelled it when they realized they could only hire white actors.

    2. Re:Pong by SeaFox · · Score: 4, Funny

      I hear it's being held up on production by some back-and-forth between the lead talents.

  2. Well, it could've been worse by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 4, Funny

    The announcement could've been for a second M. Night Shyamalan "Avatar: The Last Airbender" movie.

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  3. Re:This is sad by SpankiMonki · · Score: 4, Funny

    Only a Republican would enjoy watching someone else play Tetris.

    That's because they like things that trickle down.

  4. Obligatory 13 year-old Penny-Arcade comic by Dwedit · · Score: 5, Funny

    Here's the obligatory 13 year-old Penny-Arcade comic about this topic:
    https://www.penny-arcade.com/c...

  5. How is Uwe Boll not attached to this? by xxxJonBoyxxx · · Score: 4, Funny

    How is Uwe Boll not attached to this?

  6. Re:This is sad by silentcoder · · Score: 3, Funny

    >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.

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