Dan Ackerman, editor in chief of the tech-news website Gizmodo, filed a lawsuit in Manhattan federal court on Monday accusing Apple , the Tetris Company and others of adapting his book about the landmark video game "Tetris" into a feature film without his permission.
This sounds like absolute nothing. He pitched a movie, they said nah, then made a movie with someone else. They didn’t use his book or anything.
This just seems like an Armageddon/Deep impact etc situation where an idea is shipped around, one company buys it, so the other competitor makes their own to counter it.