Apple TV+ dropped the first trailer for Tetris, the real life story behind the development of the most-iconic video game ever created. The real story behind the game’s full of espionage, intrigue, and basically will blow your mind.
Check out the trailer below:
Tetris stars Taron Egerton (Rocketman, Kingsman) as Henk Rogers, the Dutch-born video game entrepreneur caught up in the legal battle over the game in the early 1980s. The dispute was with a computer programming agency and software companies owned by Robert and Kevin Maxwell.
Rogers stumbles across TETRIS in 1988, and travels to the Soviet Union to join forces with Alexey Pajitnov to bring the game to a worldwide audience. Rogers risks everything on this endeavor.
The film’s based on a true story, and officially dubbed a, “Cold War–era thriller on steroids, with double-crossing villains, unlikely heroes, and a nail-biting race to the finish”.
Check out the official synopsis for the film below:
“Tetris tells the unbelievable story of how one of the world’s most popular video games found its way to avid players around the globe. Henk 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, Tetris is a Cold War–era thriller on steroids, with double-crossing villains, unlikely heroes and a nail-biting race to the finish.”
