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With An $80 Million Budget, The 'Tetris' Movie You've Been Waiting For Is On The Way

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We’re not sure why, but a combined Chinese and American production studio has pressed start on a feature film based on the best-selling video game series Tetris.

Yes, the Russian Tetris, with the memorable music and falling blocks that was launched to worldwide fame when it was packaged with Nintendo’s GameBoy handheld gaming systems in the 80s. The one where one would wait endlessly for the four-brick long piece to fall so that they could score the game's namesake. That Tetris.

The film has an $80 million budget and will be produced by Threshold Global Studios, a partnership between America-based Threshold Entertainment Group and China’s Seven Star Works. The producers, Bruno Wu and Larry Kasanoff, envision it as an “epic sci-fi thriller” -- and also as the first installment of a trilogy, of all things.

The news comes just before of the release of two other films based on best-selling video games: The Angry Birds Movie and Warcraft. While it’s easy for the average person to discern what these films are about, it’s not so easy with Tetris. Kasanoff told Deadline that Tetris would be “not at all what you think; it will be a cool surprise.” Which is refreshing, because we have no idea how to even start thinking about a Tetris movie.

To be fair, Kasanoff has credits that include co-founding Lightstorm Entertainment with James Cameron, and produced action-thriller True Lies as well as the epic sci-fi film adaption of the video game Mortal Kombat, both of which were massive hits and quite enjoyable.

So maybe The Tetris Movie can become a hit and achieve a box office high score. We’ll be watching this one, because no matter how the bricks fall it’s bound to be a doozy.