Hoping for a trilogy!

If it irks you that theAssassin’s Creedmovieseems to be playing fast and loose with it’s video game material maybe you should just stop reading now. I don’t want you have an aneurysm or anything. An international collaboration between American Threshold Entertainment and Chinese Seven Star Works (now Voltron-assembled together as Threshold Global Studios) is putting $80 million dollars towards a sci-fi re-telling ofTetristhey hope to spin out to a trilogy of films.Whaaat?

The press release reads “Today there are so many great sources on which to build a movie blockbuster and video gaming is certainly an amazing category with its huge international following, so to have this legacy brand,Tetris, is a great, first project for us…”

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These people are aware that just taking the name of something doesn’t necessarilymake itthat thing, right? I mean, if I took a steaming shit on a plate and served it to you as “an ambitious re-telling of steak” would you eat it?

Anyway, Larry Kasanoff is attached to direct. You might remember him as the producer behindMortal KombatandMortal Kombat: Annihilation. Also, this:

Superman, Elio, and Glordon all looking up

Three characters walking through red water with a massive dinosaur looming over them in jurassic world rebirth next to a boy riding a black dragon in how to train your dragon

Steve, Garrett, and Henry standing on a bridge in front of a Woodland Mansion in A Minecraft Movie.

Five A Minecraft Movie characters standing in a blocky Minecraft forest with a dog.

A Minecraft Movie cast standing together in Minecraft

The Fantastic Four standing in front of a large blue four in Marvel’s The Fantastic Four: First Steps film.

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The Fantastic Four and Thunderbolts teams from Marvel