But in a joint Zoom interview from New York, Pajitnov, wearing a black shirt dotted with colourful Tetris bricks, acknowledges that a fair bit of artistic licence was used to make “a thriller on steroids”. Rogers and Pajitnov worked closely on the script to ensure authenticity. The somewhat convoluted story of how the irrepressibly charming Rogers outfoxed them all, and formed a lifelong friendship with Pajitnov in the process, is told in director Jon S Baird’s film Tetris starring Taron Egerton and Nikita Efremov, with memorable cameos by Roger Allam as Maxwell and Matthew Marsh as President Mikhail Gorbachev. But he had plenty of rivals, including the businessman Robert Stein, British newspaper proprietor Maxwell and his son Kevin, and Russian officials and KGB officers on the make.
Rogers travelled to the Soviet Union in 1988 to meet Tetris’s designer, Alexey Pajitnov, hoping to secure worldwide distribution rights to the game. In Rogers’s case, he was a video game publisher who knew he had discovered the next big thing: Tetris, a strangely addictive puzzle in which players must arrange falling bricks of differing shapes to form a solid wall. That may be the key to success in many aspects of life.
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