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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. Sigh by ledow · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.