The Tetris movie, which is due to be released on Apple TV in 2023, has been rated R, but sadly we're not getting anything as spicy as a T-spin sex scene.
Tetris is now listed with an R rating on FilmRatings.com (via MovieWeb), the Motion Picture Association of America's official repository of movie ratings. The film has been "rated R for language".
No, you're not going to hear the I-block drop any F-bombs. (Probably.) While there was talk of a sci-fi thriller trilogy based on Tetris several years ago, which would've presumably turned the blocks into, I dunno, aliens or something, the film we're actually getting is a drama based on the legal battle to secure the rights to distribute the game.
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The original version of Tetris was developed by Russian software engineer Alexey Pajitnov in 1984. As you might imagine, selling intellectual property rights to international businesses was a complicated matter under the Soviet Union, and several different people came away from meetings with Pajitnov's partners believing that they had acquired the rights to the game - people representing companies like Mirrorsoft, Spectrum Holobyte, and Nintendo.
Personally, I'm hoping to see the late Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi screaming subtitled profanity in a board room scene, but I guess we'll have to wait and see what we get.
Filming on the Tetris movie wrapped way back in March 2021, as director Jon S. Baird revealed in a tweet. There's been very little news about the film since. A release date of March 2023 is currently listed on the movie's Wikipedia page, apparently based purely on a podcast interview with Baird.
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