'Tetris' Is Inspired by the Wildest True Story

A movie about the amazing true story behind the legendary video game Tetris, and the events that surrounded its development, is coming to Apple TV+ this month after a SXSW premiere. The movie stars Taron Egerton as Henk Rogers, a Dutch game developer who worked with engineers in Moscow, Russia to bring the gaming phenomenon to the rest of the world. When director, Jon S. Baird, got his first look at the script it was called, "Falling Blocs", a clever pun about the game's challenging premise and how its release coincides with the fall of the Eastern Bloc and the end of the Cold War. The real story behind getting Tetris to the masses is truly a riveting one involving secrecy, fights for the rights to the hugely successful game, and even a triple murder linked to the family of one of the engineers who worked on developing Tetris.