To acquire the necessary licencing rights, Henk travels to Moscow to meet with Tetris's creator Alexey Pajitnov (Nikita Efremov), where he quickly learns how dangerous it can be doing business in a communist country. Henk is shown Nintendo's soon-to-be-released handheld console - the Game Boy, and after some persuasion, convinces the higher-ups to package the Game Boy with Tetris on release day. In an effort to outdo them, Henk decides to meet with Sega's biggest competitor Nintendo to arrange his own partnership. Believing in the potential marketability of Tetris worldwide, Henk tries to acquire the game's distribution rights but soon learns that British video game distributor Mirrorsoft also has Tetris in their sights, with them already striking up an arcade deal with Sega. While attending the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Henk becomes fascinated by a Soviet produced puzzle game known as "Tetris", which involves lining up falling blocks to make them disappear. In 1988, Henk Rogers (Taron Egerton) works in marketing for the video game publishing company "Bullet-Proof Software". Baird ("Filth", "Stan & Ollie") and starring Taron Egerton in the lead role, it shows us the quirky, crazy risks taken to distribute one the most popular video games of all time. "Tetris" is a biographical comedy thriller film based on the YouTube video "The Story of Tetris - Gaming Historian" by Norman Caruso.
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