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.
Only the fictional similarities matter, if any.
He has no future rights to be involved in a movie about a major franchise just because he once proposed a movie of same.
So since we know of no fictional similarities as yet, this case remains entirely to be made in court.