Over the past couple of years there has been a rising trend in Hollywood to cull novel narrative material from best-selling toys and video game properties that already have a rabid fan base in place, which has resulted in such blockbuster motion pictures as The LEGO Movie in 2014 and The Angry Birds Movie from last month. Following that trend, the recent announcement from the 2016 Cannes Film Festival that Tetris: The Movie is currently under development, in an exclusive deal between U.S. and Chinese producers, has turned more than a few heads.
Originally conceived as a fairly rudimentary puzzle-platformer that was created, designed, and programmed by Russian game designer Alexey Pajitnov in 1984, the original property has been a best-selling hit on multiple platforms going on some thirty years ...
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