No./15
Tetris
[ ON-SET REPORT]
The iconic game’s genesis gets a dramatic adaptation for Apple TV+
WHERE: Edinburgh and Aberdeen, Scotland
WHEN: 17/18 February 2021
WHY? “They’re making a movie about Tetris? With the falling blocks?” asks the server at an Edinburgh burger restaurant when Empire tells him why we’re in town. The answer is yes, and no. Director Jon S. Baird is making a movie about Tetris, but it’s not a Pixels-style adaptation of the insanely addictive video game. Instead, this is the Big Short-esque story of the cut-throat battle to secure the rights to the game, which involved disparate players like Robert Maxwell (yes, that one, played by Roger Allam), underdog video-game designer and entrepreneur Henk Rogers (Taron Egerton), and the Russian creator of the game, Alexey Pajitnov (Nikita Efremov).