Ace Agent Eggsy to Star in Tetris Live-Action Movie

According to the British Daily Mail, Taron Egerton, who played Eggsy in Kingsman: The Golden Circle, will star in the Tetris movie, playing Henk Rogers, president of the Japanese game company BPS, who is a key figure in bringing Tetris to the world. Tetris also witnessed the end of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. As a product born under the Iron Curtain, it was the first Soviet electronic game exported to the United States.

In February 1989, three game company executives from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan arrived in Moscow at almost the same time. The three parties had only one goal: to obtain the official license for Tetris. The negotiations lasted for a month, and the final result was that Henk Rogers spent more than $10 million (equivalent to $200 million today) on behalf of Nintendo to buy the exclusive rights to Tetris on game consoles.

On April 21, 1989, Game Boy was launched. Two months later, the exclusive game "Tetris" was released, and soon the so-called only bundled game and Game Boy were sold all over the world. The combination of the two made Nintendo a huge success. Game Boy sold more than 100 million units in total, the first game console to have such sales. Tetris is the best-selling video game of all time. The film is scheduled to start shooting in September.