‘Rocketman’ and ‘Kingsman’ star, Taron Egerton, is set to take on the leading role in a film surrounding the legal battles behind the video game ‘Tetris’.
Centred on the video game entrepreneur Henk Rogers, the project will be based in the 80s’ and follow Roger’s dispute with a Soviety computer programming agency and software companies controlled by late media mogul Robert Maxwell and his son Kevin. Following a series of rows, he managed to secure the intellectual property rights to the blockbuster Nintendo Game Boy game for himself and its creator Alexey Pajitnov.
Titled ‘Tetris, the ‘Stan and Ollie’ helmer Jon S. Baird will direct. Leonard Blavatnik and Matthew Vaughn are set to produce.
Filming is hoping to kick off in September.
Also in news – Spike Lee-directed filmed version of ‘American Utopia’ to open TIFF
Egerton is still reported to be attached to a remake of ‘A Little...
Centred on the video game entrepreneur Henk Rogers, the project will be based in the 80s’ and follow Roger’s dispute with a Soviety computer programming agency and software companies controlled by late media mogul Robert Maxwell and his son Kevin. Following a series of rows, he managed to secure the intellectual property rights to the blockbuster Nintendo Game Boy game for himself and its creator Alexey Pajitnov.
Titled ‘Tetris, the ‘Stan and Ollie’ helmer Jon S. Baird will direct. Leonard Blavatnik and Matthew Vaughn are set to produce.
Filming is hoping to kick off in September.
Also in news – Spike Lee-directed filmed version of ‘American Utopia’ to open TIFF
Egerton is still reported to be attached to a remake of ‘A Little...
- 7/23/2020
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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