Through the years, as so many video games have been adapted into movies, it’s been a commonly told joke that eventually somebody would get desperate enough to make a movie out of Tetris. Apple actually announced such a movie not too long ago. The common assumption was that a Tetris movie would be about giant bricks falling from the sky and crushing cities, but the actual film we’re getting has a better reason for being than that. The Tetris movie is about how Tetris escaped Soviet Russia to become a global phenomenon, which is a fascinating story.
If you don’t know that story yet, The Gaming Historian did an excellent video all about it (see below), but the Spark Notes summary is this: Tetris was invented by Russian programmer Alexei Pajitnov using ASCII art on his primitive 80s computer. The game had the potential to be big, but Russia was still under Communist control, which meant the State would own the game, not Pajitnov. Nintendo rep Henk Rogers caught wind of the game and realized it would be the perfect pack-in for the Game Boy handheld that was in development back in Japan. A struggle ensued between Capitalist and Communist forces…which you now get to see played out with real actors if you have an Apple TV subscription.
To be honest, it looks like Apple’s version of the events invents a few colorful embellishments to make the story more movie-friendly — no car chases or abductions took place in the actual events. But actor Taron Egerton makes for a pretty swell Henk Rogers and Togo Igawa plays a frighteningly uncanny Hiroshi Yamauchi, Nintendo’s ruthless 80s president.
Tetris will be released March 31 on Apple TV+.
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