Apple has introduced that “Tetris: The Film” will be part of its Apple+ streaming service lineup of movies from award-winning storytellers. With a launch date set for March 31, 2023.
Starring Golden Globe Award-winner Taron Egerton (“Rocketman,” “Kingsman” franchise) and set to be directed by Jon S. Baird (“Stan & Ollie,” “Filth”), the movie will probably be produced by Matthew Vaughn’s MARV and UNIGRAM, a sister firm to AI Movie in Blavatnik’s Entry Industries Group.
Watch the Tetris: The Film debut trailer:
“Tetris: The Film” follows the extraordinary journey one of the iconic laptop video games on the earth. The drama tells the compelling story of the creation of Tetris born from the creativeness of laptop programmer Alexey Pajitnov, in the course of the fall of the Iron curtain within the USSR. Egerton will play Dutch-born online game entrepreneur Henk Rogers who secured the worldwide rights to distribute Tetris on online game consoles.
The unique screenplay was written by two-time Emmy Award nominee Noah Pink (“Genius, The Present”). Matthew Vaughn (“Rocketman,” “Kingsman” franchise) will produce alongside Len Blavatnik (“I,Tonya”) and Unigram’s Gregor Cameron (“Kill Your Pals”) and Gillian Berrie (“Starred Up, Outlaw King”). Alwin Küchler (“Divergent,” upcoming “Prisoner 760”) will function cinematographer and Daniel Taylor (“Dream Horse,” “Britannia”) will function manufacturing designer on the undertaking.
The undertaking reunites MARV’s Matthew Vaughn and Taron Egerton following final yr’s critically acclaimed “Rocketman,” which earned Egerton a Golden Globe Award and BAFTA Award nomination. The 2 additionally beforehand collaborated on the “Kingsman” franchise, with Egerton delivering a breakout efficiency in “Kingsman: The Secret Service,” which Vaughn directed, co-wrote and produced, and continued by way of “Eddie the Eagle.”
“Tetris: The Film” is the primary undertaking to return from 2019’s tie-up between Unigram and AI Movie, combining the inventive attain of Unigram with AI Movie’s finance and structuring equipment. The movie acquired help from Display screen Scotland to assist deliver the manufacturing to the nation.
“Tetris: The Film” expands Apple’s unique movie slate which incorporates the critically acclaimed “On The Rocks,” from Academy Award-winner Sofia Coppola, and starring Invoice Murray and Rashida Jones, and “Fireball: Guests from Darker Worlds.” Apple TV+ will even quickly premiere anticipated movies upcoming “Swan Track” a genre-bending movie starring Mahershala Ali and Naomie Harris; “The Sky is All over the place” starring Emmy Award-winner Cherry Jones and Jason Segel; “Snow Blind,” with Jake Gyllenhaal hooked up to star; Martin Scorsese’s forthcoming “Killers of the Flower Moon,” starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro; “Emancipation,” from director Antoine Fuqua and starring and produced by Academy Award nominee Will Smith; “Sharper,” a brand new movie from A24, Brian Gatewood and Alessandro Tanaka, starring and produced by Academy Award winner Julianne Moore; and Anthony and Joe Russo’s new movie “Cherry,” starring Tom Holland and Ciara Bravo.
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Are you excited for Tetris: The Film?
I do know there was a graphic novel detailing the historical past of how Tetris grew to become a worldwide hit. Discovered it! It was referred to as Tetris: The Video games Folks Play. This appears just like the film model of that e book, though the story of how Tetris got here to the Nintendo Recreation Boy within the 1980’s is broadly recognized. Anyway, it appears prefer it’ll be a enjoyable watch.