This Tetris news is about as puzzling as the game itself.
Tetris will be made into a feature-length movie, according to The Wall Street Journal. Threshold Entertainment is teaming up with the Tetris Company to turn the beloved block-shifting puzzle game from the '80s into "a very big, epic sci-fi movie," Threshold's CEO Larry Kasanoff told The Wall Street Journal's Speakeasy blog.
"This isn't a movie with a bunch of lines running around the page. We're not giving feet to the geometric shapes," he said.
Although the film's director and cast haven't been determined yet, clearly the producers have a story already in mind for Tetris' big-screen debut. I'm sure Threshold will find some way to breathe life into this geometric game (there's always a way), but with no actual characters other than blocks featured in Tetris, I have no idea how they're actually going to pull this one off. Will they turn the different-shaped blocks into spaceships that fly around the galaxy? Or maybe configuring the classic Tetris blocks to fit perfectly together will unlock some big secret or save the universe or something. We can only hope that it turns out to be more exciting than how the idea for the film currently sounds on paper.
