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Podcast: Cinematography Podcast - Cam Noir
Episode: Director Jon S. Baird on the new Apple TV+ movie, Tetris
Description: The new Apple TV+ movie Tetris tells the unbelievable but true story of how the video game became a worldwide phenomenon. Entrepreneur Henk Rogers (Taron Egerton) discovered Tetris in 1988 and partnered with Soviet inventor Alexey Pajitnov (Nikita Efremov) to bring the game from the USSR to the entire world. Tetris is a fast-paced, compelling Cold War–era thriller as Henk and Alexey race to outmaneuver their competitors who are determined to get to the market first with the “perfect” video game.
Director Jon Baird loved the script for Tetris because it was fun, fast-paced, full of political intrig...