And in one culled from the "WTF?" file, a film based on the classic video game "Tetris" is in the works, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Threshold Entertainment is putting the live-action film together for the Tetris Company. There is no director currently attached, but apparently a story (???) is in place.
"It's a very big, epic sci-fi movie," Threshold's CEO Larry Kasanoff said. "This isn't a movie with a bunch of lines running around the page. We're not giving feet to the geometric shapes."
Kasanoff is best known for adapting the "Mortal Kombat" fighting games into two films, 1995's "Mortal Kombat" and 1997's "Mortal Kombat: Annihilation."
"Brands are the new stars of Hollywood," Kasanoff continued. "We have a story behind 'Tetris' which makes it a much more imaginative thing...What you [will] see in 'Tetris' is the teeny tip of an iceberg that has intergalactic significance."
"Tetris" is a classic abstract puzzle game created in 1984 by the Soviet game designer Alexey Pajitnov. The game, widely considered one of the best ever created, was a hit in the arcade, and became a household phenomenon when it was packaged with Nintendo's first handheld system, the Gameboy.
No release window for the film has been given at this time...and here's hoping it stays that way as a live-action/sci-fi version of "Tetris," the way Kasanoff is describing it here, has the potential to be worse than 1993's dreadful "Super Mario Bros." flick. Mark my words on this one...
