The new movie “Tetris” is not your typical video game adaptation. Instead of a live action-CGI adventure, the film explores the origin story of the popular strategy game with the unmistakable theme song. Taron Egerton stars as Henk Rogers, the Dutch-born video game designer and entrepreneur who risked everything to negotiate with authorities in Soviet Russia for the rights to the world’s future block-falling obsession in the late 1980s.
“I’m doing that next,” jokes Egerton about the possibility of a live-action Tetris movie. “But yeah the movie’s called Tetris, and it’s in big bold font, so I can understand why people might think it’s more of a traditional video game movie.”
