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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."
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The announcement could've been for a second M. Night Shyamalan "Avatar: The Last Airbender" movie.
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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.)
Here's the obligatory 13 year-old Penny-Arcade comic about this topic:
https://www.penny-arcade.com/c...
but if it's anything like this trailer I will go to the midnight showing https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
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.
>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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