Apple TV+ has released the trailer for “Tetris,” a biographical feature about the contentious development behind one of the most iconic video games ever created.
“Kingsman” and “Rocketman” alum Taron Egerton stars as Dutch-born video game entrepreneur Henk Rogers who became caught up in the legal battle surrounding the game in the late 1980s. Henk was involved in a dispute with a computer programming agency and software companies controlled by late media mogul Robert Maxwell and his son Kevin.
Rogers discovers TETRIS in 1988, and then risks everything by traveling to the Soviet Union, where he joins forces with inventor Alexey Pajitnov to bring the game to the masses. Based on a true story, the project is dubbed a “Cold War–era thriller on steroids, with double-crossing villains, unlikely heroes, and a nail-biting race to the finish”.
Henk ultimately secured the intellectual property rights to the blockbuster Nintendo Game Boy game and around 495 million copies of the various ports and versions of it have been sold globally to date.
“Stan & Ollie” filmmaker Jon S. Baird directs the project which Leonard Blavatnik and Matthew Vaughn produce. Toby Jones, Roger Allam, Anthony Boyle, Togo Igawa, Ken Yamamura, Ben Miles, and Matthew Marsh also star.
“Tetris” will have its world premiere at SXSW on March 15th ahead of on Apple TV+ release on March 31st.
