Classic video game Tetris will be heading to silver screen in two separate movies, with the announcement that Brett Ratner (X-Men: The Last Stand) is working on a biopic of the game’s creation.
The Tracking Board are reporting that the untitled movie will focus on Alexey Pajitnov, the Russian creator of Tetris, who developed the game alongside Dmitry Pavlovsky and Vadim Gerasimov for a Soviet-funded company. Because of his Soviet connections, Pajitnov didn’t recieve royalities on the game until 1996, despite it being sold with every Game Boy.
Ratner will possibly direct the movie and will produce it with partner Jeremy Packner with their RatPac company. Their previous titles include Horrible Bosses 2, The Arrested Development Movie and The Revenant. The movie is being described in the same vein as The Social Network, which told the story of Mark Zuckerberg’s creation of Facebook.
Lawrence Kasanoff and Threshold Entertainment (Mortal Kombat) will be producing the other Tetris movie, which will be a straight science-fiction adaptation of the game.
Originally published November 24, 2015. Updated April 15, 2018.
