A film based on the origins of the famous Gameboy game Tetris is being planned with Rush Hour director Brett Ratner producing. The movie will essentially be a biopic of Alexey Pajitnov, who designed the created the game whilst working in a Russian research and development centre. The game caused controversy after the rights to it became the crux of multiple complicated legal battles that spanned across the globe.
Eventually Nintendo bagged the rights and from 1991, packaged the game with every Gameboy, creating a global phenomenon. Pajitnov reportedly didn’t receive any money for the game until 1996, the same year where he was voted the fourth most influential computer game developer of all time.
The Tracking Board report the news of the movie plans, revealing that the film will have a very similar feel to The Social Network, which, of course, was a huge success a few years ago for director David Fincher and writer Aaron Sorkin.
Brett Ratner and James Packer will produce through their RatPack company. The duo are currently on the hunt for a screenwriter after bagging the rights to the story.
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