Apple TV+ has revealed the trailer and announced a March premiere for the film ‘Tetris’, based on the classic video game… And before you start thinking ‘The Emoji Movie’, this is a thriller about the origin story of the game starring Taron Egerton, and it is way, WAY, weirder and more interesting than you might think!
‘Tetris’ tells the unbelievable story of how one of the world’s most popular video games found its way to avid players around the globe. Henk Rogers (Egerton) discovers TETRIS in 1988, and then risks everything by travelling to the Soviet Union, where he joins forces with inventor Alexey Pajitnov (Nikita Efremov) to bring the game to the masses. Based on a true story, ‘Tetris’ is a Cold War-era thriller on steroids, with double-crossing villains, unlikely heroes and a nail-biting race to the finish.
Alongside Egerton and Efremov, the film stars Toby Jones as Robert Stein, Roger Allam as Robert Maxwell, Anthony Boyle as Kevin Maxwell, Togo Igawa as Hiroshi Yamauchi, Ken Yamamura as Minoru Arakawa, Ben Miles as Howard Lincoln, Matthew Marsh as Mikhail Gorbachev, and Rick Yune as Larry.
The movie is directed by Jon S. Baird (‘Stonehouse’) from a script by Noah Pink (‘Genius’). The film is produced by Matthew Vaughn, Gillian Berrie, Claudia Vaughn, Len Blavatnik and Gregor Cameron, with Zygi Kamasa, Carlos Peres, Iain Mackenzie, Noah Pink, Taron Egerton, Danny Cohen, Amanda Ghost, Vince Holden, Henk Rogers, Alexey Pajitnov and Maya Rogers executive producing.
‘Tetris’ premieres Friday, 31st March 2023 on Apple TV+.
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