![]() ![]() I was working with them on one of the “Kingsman” scripts before and worked quite closely with him on that. ![]() What is your relationship with Matthew Vaughn and his production company Marv? It wasn’t called “Tetris,” at the time it was called “Falling Blocks,” but we thought that “Tetris” was probably a title that would get people in a bit more, just kind of fool them into thinking it was a film about a computer game but it’s not really at all. I’m really attracted to these true stories and I thought that, coupled with the politics, it already has that built-in sort of random thing. I’m a politics graduate, so I’m very interested in that time period and that geopolitical situation at that point, so it was a no brainer. And obviously I knew the game well enough but I didn’t know the story behind it. I had no idea this totally bizarre story existed. And it was always from Hank’s point of view. But it gave us time to refine the script, and in particular the ending, to have a more fast-paced conclusion. For the next six months or something we were developing and trying to go into production, because the other thing is we got caught in the middle of COVID. It needed a bit of finessing and development. And at the same time, Noah had this script and it was almost there. I was working with the production company on a completely different project. Baird (who previously brought the story of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy to the big screen in “Stan & Ollie”) about how the project came about, whether or not he was a “Tetris” die-hard and whatever happened to his “Kingsman” movie. TheWrap spoke to “Tetris” director Jon S. ![]() And you can watch it right now, on Apple TV+. Produced by “Kingsman” mastermind Matthew Vaughn, the movie has a decidedly poppy tone and visual aesthetic (embroidered with 8-bit flourishes) that makes it even more fun to watch. (Also, anyone who ever spent time with “Tetris” on the original Game Boy will be even more taken with the story.) It’s a wild and deeply compelling story, the kind of Cold War caper that is even more incredible because it really happened. Not the game of colorful blocks falling from the sky, but the new feature film about how the rights to “Tetris” were maneuvered out of the former Soviet Union by an American programmer and game developer named Henk Rogers (Taron Egerton). ![]()
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