Are you sitting down? Please, tell me you’re sitting down. Because, the Wall Street Journal reports, Tetris will be coming to a theater near you.
No, not for a World Cup competition — the company is determined to turn the classic blockbusting game into a spectator sport — but for a movie. That’s right, there is going to be a Tetris movie. And according to Threshold Entertainment CEO Larry Kasanoff, “It’s a very big, epic sic-fi movie.”
If they can make Battleship into a movie, why not Tetris?
Re: Tetris, the Movie?!
Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2014 12:28 pm
by Bob Juch
earendel wrote:If they can make Battleship into a movie, why not Tetris?
It will probably be as successful.
Re: Tetris, the Movie?!
Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2014 12:28 pm
by MarleysGh0st
earendel wrote:If they can make Battleship into a movie, why not Tetris?
I'm still trying to figure out why the USS Missouri--preserved as a floating museum--still had live ordinance aboard.
Re: Tetris, the Movie?!
Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2014 12:31 pm
by silverscreenselect
earendel wrote:If they can make Battleship into a movie, why not Tetris?
Alien spaceships bombard earth with thousands of giant bizarrely shaped blocks and scientists have to figure out a way to fit them into thousands of giant puzzle grids that are manufactured to help stop the attack.
Re: Tetris, the Movie?!
Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2014 12:45 pm
by BackInTex
Mousetrap was made into a movie, correct?
My suggetions for other games to be made into movies:
Stratego
Operation
Risk
Jenga
Uno
Re: Tetris, the Movie?!
Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2014 1:31 pm
by silverscreenselect
BackInTex wrote:Mousetrap was made into a movie, correct?
Let's not forget the most famous game movie of all time:
Re: Tetris, the Movie?!
Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2014 2:42 pm
by SpacemanSpiff
BackInTex wrote:Mousetrap was made into a movie, correct?
My suggetions for other games to be made into movies:
Stratego
Operation
Risk
Jenga
Uno
What? No "Mystery Date"?
Re: Tetris, the Movie?!
Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2014 6:13 pm
by Estonut
I remember when they did "Twister." It was nothing like the game...
Re: Tetris, the Movie?!
Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2014 7:03 pm
by BackInTex
SpacemanSpiff wrote:
BackInTex wrote:Mousetrap was made into a movie, correct?
My suggetions for other games to be made into movies:
Stratego
Operation
Risk
Jenga
Uno
What? No "Mystery Date"?
They couldn't 'sell' George Clooney as the lead since he got married. It wouldn't work. That and Carrot Top was busy.
Re: Tetris, the Movie?!
Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2014 7:04 pm
by BackInTex
Estonut wrote:I remember when they did "Twister." It was nothing like the game...
But oh how I'd like to play it with Helen Hunt.
Re: Tetris, the Movie?!
Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 10:36 am
by Vandal
Angry Birds are coming to the big screen in July, 2016
