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Tetris film coming from the producers of 'Platoon,' 'Terminator 2'

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Tetris, the 30-year-old computer puzzle game that is etched into the minds of hundreds of millions of gamers, is going to be made into a movie.

I can’t imagine how someone could make this legendary video game into a movie. But it looks like Larry Kasanoff, the producer of the film and chairman of Threshold Entertainment, is going to try. Stranger things have happened.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.