Tetris Coming to the Big Screen

Find something embedded in popular culture with a strong nostalgic following.

Make film about it.

Bleed franchise dry.

Repeat.

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Hollywood shies away from original material for blockbusters because it's too risky, no matter how ridiculous it sounds someone has probably done a risk assessment on the investment and worked out that a film based on an anicent computer game is going to be more profitable than new IP about a universe/realm nobody has heard of.
 
Well, we had Battleship already which seemed to have no relation to the game despite being 'inspired' by it. Next up we have Monopoly, Mousetrap and Operation
 
They messed up a lot with DOOM.
I would have started with a prologue as to why the marine gets sent to mars, concentrated on the clashes between Doctor Betrueger and Elliot Swann. Arnold Schwartzenegger would have played Sergeant Kelly, I would have put ALL the monsters in and have the entire facility nuked at the end.

The epilogue would involve the UAC authorities covering the entire thing up and the marine giving evidence at an enquiry,
 
If you've ever watch the documentaries surrounding the whole mell'ee of tetris, you could kind see how it could work.

That said probably more battleship, or maybe riff'in on the gameboy craze:)
 
Kreeeee said:
King of Kong was a good film about donkey Kong.
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Excellent film, also in the same vein

Man vs Snake : The Long and Twisted Tale of Nibbler
Ecstacy of Order : The Tetris Masters
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All great arcade/game challenge films
 
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Semple said:
Doesn't look too bad actually.
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I don't know anyone can get to the end of that trailer and come to this conclusion....if they can get that far. Every yawn-inducing tired trailer trope they could find. A trailer for the attention-deficient TikTok generation.

Nope.
 
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