
Take a seat. Close your eyes for a moment. Consider the game of Tetris. Are you seeing rainbow-colored oblong chunks fall from the sky?
Remove that image from your mind, because the trailer for a new film about the origins of the popular game has arrived, and there isn’t a falling block in sight (well, maybe one or two).
Instead, the Tetris trailer, directed by Jon S. Baird and starring Taron Egerton, has run-ins with the KGB and a spectacular car chase. Yes, it’s a bone-chilling Cold War thriller.
In the film, which will be released on Apple TV+ on March 31, Egerton plays Dutch entrepreneur Henk Rogers, who is anxious to acquire Tetris’ worldwide distribution rights.
As the action-packed teaser indicates, Rogers is confronted not just by the KGB in his pursuit for the game’s rights, but also by Tetris’ inventor Alex Pajitnov (played by Nikita Yefremov) and Nintendo chief Hiroshi Yamauchi (Togo Igawa).
‘Tetris chronicles the incredible tale of how one of the world’s most popular video games found its way to enthusiastic gamers all across the world,’ according to the official description.


‘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.’
Speaking about the film to Entertainment Weekly, Egerton said: ‘It’s a great thriller, and everyone’s fantastic.’
He added: It’s a great supporting cast. There are some real top-tier British stalwarts like Roger Allam. He’s amazing, and they did an incredible job of making him look like Robert Maxwell.
‘It was quite eerie, actually, when I first saw him. Then there’s a host of really brilliant Russian actors as well. So it’s a really strong cast, and it came together really well.’