Tetris 'origins' film in the works with director Brett Ratner to develop

The film will focus on Alexey Pajitnov, the Russian video game designer behind the iconic video-game

A Tetris 'origins' movie is in the works (The Tetris Company)

Just when you thought Hollywood had scraped the bottom of the barrel by producing a film about Monopoly, they've managed to surprise everyone once again.

According to The Tracking Board, Brett Ratner - best known for Prison Break, Rush Hour and X-Men: Last Stand - and James Packer are developing an origins story about Tetris.

The film will focus on Alexey Pajitnov, the Russian video game designer and computer engineer behind the iconic video-game.

Much like how The Social Network followed Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook’s story, the as-yet-untitled biopic will detail Pajitnov’s career as he developed the game in 1984 communist USSR.

The film was originally unveiled by Wall Street Journal, but was at the time described as being a "very big, epic sci-fi movie."

"This isn’t a movie with a bunch of lines running around the page," said Threshold Entertainment CEO Larry Kasanoff. "We’re not giving feet to the geometric shapes."

How the programmer’s story will be transformed into an “epic sci-fi” is currently unknown, but the actual way Tetris became a video-game staple is *relatively* interesting.

As Tetris grew in fame, being adapted to numerous formats, there was a huge legal battle between rival companies attempting to buy the rights to the game. Eventually, Tetris was sold with every Nintendo Game Boy in America, yet Pajitnov didn’t receive any money for it until 1996.

Producers are reportedly still looking for a writer to adapt the story to screen.