‘Tetris’ book author: Movie producers stole my work — and threatened to sue

It’s not a sport to him.

Dan Ackerman, creator of “The Tetris Impact: The Recreation That Hypnotized the World,” filed a lawsuit in New York Monday claiming that tech big Apple and the Tetris Co., producers of the brand new Taron Egerton film “Tetris,” tailored his e-book with out asking permission.

In response to paperwork obtained by The Post, Ackerman, 49, has accused Apple and the Tetris Co. of copyright infringement, unfair competitors, and illegally interfering together with his enterprise relations.

“Tetris” premiered on the SXSW Movie Pageant March 15. It stars Egerton, Nikita Efremov, Rick Yune, Ben Miles, Roger Allam and a number of other others.

The movie tells the story of how Henk Rogers (Egerton), a Dutch-American entrepreneur, managed to safe rights to the sport for the Nintendo Recreation Boy model within the Nineteen Eighties — making the puzzle sport one of the well-known video video games of all time.

Ackerman states that in 2016, he despatched a pre-published copy of his e-book to the Tetris Co., which refused to license the mental property and allegedly dissuaded different producers who had been keen on optioning the title.

The creator then states that the corporate’s CEO Maya Rogers — and later, screenwriter Noah Pink — started copying his work in 2017 and threatened to sue him if he tried to pursue every other movies or TV spinoffs by means of a really “strongly worded stop and desist letter.”

The Publish reached out to Apple and the Tetris Co. for remark.

Kevin Landau, Ackerman’s lawyer, told Reuters that the lawsuit “goals to proper a unsuitable and supply the respect and justice to the work, diligence and possession of somebody who’s entitled to such respect and acknowledgment below the regulation.”

“The ‘Tetris’ movie is considerably related in virtually all materials respects together with particular chapters and pages of mentioned e-book that had been merely adopted from the e-book to the movie, with out Plaintiff’s information, authorization or consent,” reads the lawsuit.

“After having reviewed your entire e-book that Mr. Ackerman wrote, Ms. Rogers then used Mr. Ackerman’s work, for which Defendant Pink developed a screenplay, the contents of which was taken from the e-book and deceptively made into a movie undertaking with out Plaintiff’s information or consent, which included the dearth of any optioning or licensing rights,” the submitting states.

In response to Ackerman’s lawyer, he’s in search of at the very least 6% of the movie’s estimated $80 million manufacturing funds.

Per the go well with, Ackerman would additionally obtain “statutory damages as much as $150,000 per copyright infringed,” in addition to lawyer’s charges and prices.

The Tetris Co. told Variety “they don’t imagine it has any benefit however will not be ready to say something additional at this time limit.”

The movie obtained usually optimistic opinions and premiered on Apple TV in late July.

“The Tetris Impact: The Recreation that Hypnotized the World” is obtainable on Amazon.