Minecraft is amongst the most effective and prominent video games of the early 21st century, winning lots of awards and offering over 300 million copies (up until now) because its 2011 release. It was just a matter of time before Hollywood provided us a function movie based on the 3D sandbox video game, merely entitled A Minecraft MovieSure, one may have appointments about yet another video game-based motion picture, however on the plus side, we’ve got Jason Momoa and Jack Black co-starring. And the very first teaser has plenty of eye-popping candy-colored cubic visuals and sly referrals to the video game that need to please fans.

Within a year of Minecraft‘s preliminary release, Mojang Studios was fielding deals from Hollywood manufacturers about making a television series based upon the video game, however the business wished to wait on “the ideal concept.” There was a 2014 effort to crowd-source a fan movie, however video game developer Markus “Notch” Persson didn’t accept accredit that effort because he was currently working out with Warner Bros. about establishing a movie based upon the video game. Hence started a long, complicated procedure of directors and authors being worked with and leaving the task for numerous factors.

When the dust lastly settled, Jared Hess (who dealt with Black on Nacho Librewound up directing. The COVID pandemic and 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike postponed things even more, however shooting lastly covered previously this year in Auckland, New Zealand– in the nick of time for a spring 2025 theatrical release. Per the main run-through:

Invite to the world of Minecraft, where imagination does not simply assist you craft, it’s important to one’s survival! 4 misfits– Garrett “The Garbage Man” Garrison (Jason Momoa), Henry (Sebastian Eugene Hansen), Natalie (Emma Myers) and Dawn (Danielle Brooks)– discover themselves fighting with common issues when they are all of a sudden pulled through a mystical website into the Overworld: a strange, cubic wonderland that grows on creativity. To return home, they’ll need to master this world (and secure it from wicked things like Piglins and Zombies, too) while starting a wonderful mission with an unforeseen, professional crafter, Steve (Jack Black). Together, their experience will challenge all 5 to be vibrant and to reconnect with the qualities that make each of them distinctively imaginative … the really abilities they require to prosper back in the real life.

Video game gamers will acknowledge Steve as one of the default characters in MinecraftThe teaser is set to The Beatles’ “Magical Mystery Tour” and opens with our misfits coming across a fantastical Tolkien-esque landscape– just with a lot more cube-like shapes, like a pink sheep with a cubed head. We get the previously mentioned Piglins and other animals before Black appears and drastically reveals with fantastic excitement, “I. … am Steve.” Truthfully, we’ll most likely see it simply for Black’s efficiency alone.

A Minecraft Movie hits theaters in April 2025.

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