It was recently announced that Tetris, the game where you place blocks on top of other blocks to try and create lines on the board, is getting its own movie. It's impossible to not be sceptical. Just how are Threshold Entertainment, makers of Mortal Kombat (a bad film revered for not being as bad as other video game adaptations) going to adapt the game? Have previously destroyed blocks come back to life as zom-blocks? Or have the straight line tile go on a journey to find his origins? Nope, they're doing an epic sci-fi. Quite how that'll happen (expect actual Tetris to play a very small part) remains to be seen, but we can't say we're surprised; the default way to adapt any nondescript toy or game is to just whack a bit future-tech on it. Way back in the eighties Transformers, robots that turn into cars, were made into a cartoon that had their transformations secondary to an epic sci-fi and just a couple of years ago Battleship, a basic strategy game, was turned into a movie that had strategy placed secondary to, you guessed it, epic sci-fi. Epic sci-fi? We've been there, done that and suffered all the merchandise. The LEGO Movie worked because it got to the very ideals of the plastic blocks and made something specific to that. Tetris will fail for doing the opposite.
