Threshold Entertainment Group, the production company that gave us Mortal Kombat, has announced that they are developing a live-action Tetris movie!
I guess after the success of The Lego Movie, with Pixels well on its way to hit the silver screen next summer, and now that Angry Birds has also successfully cast a group of well-known comedians; someone in Hollywood decided that Tetris would become the next big thing... because it was the biggest thing some 20 years ago.
Threshold's C.E.O., Larry Kasanoff, calls it a "very big, sci-fi epic" which I first laughed it off as the misguided imagination of a deranged man.
But then, the article from the New Yorker mentioned that Kasanoff will focus more on the "essence of the game". And he referred back to Henk Rogers, the founder of the Tetris Company, identified the essence and the appeal of the game as, it speaks to the desire of people to create order out of chaos.
On the one hand, what interests me is the literal idea of having that need to creat order out of chaos as the backdrop; this could be take-off point for a cool storyline.
But on the other hand, is it really cool to see some guy running around on the screen, chasing those Tetriminos blocks and desperately or obsessively, compulsively and desperately trying to arrange them into order so as his or her planet may remain intact?
Let's see if the plan for this movie won't fall through with all these cracks in the Tetris wall.
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