“A Minecraft Movie” started its protracted production process in 2014. Originally attached as director, Shawn Levy (“Deadpool & Wolverine,” “The Adam Project”) departed the project at the end of that year. With an estimated budget of $150 million, Rob McElhenney was appointed director in July 2015. They engaged Steve Carell to voice an unidentified character and Jason Fuchs to write the screenplay. It was said, however, that the project perished on the vine.
The film was scheduled for release in March 2022, and Peter Sollett was hired as both writer and director in January 2019. They brought in Allison Schroeder to create the script. However, the COVID-19 epidemic forced the project to be abandoned.
Without Sollett and Schroeder, the production resumed in April 2022 under the direction of Jared Hess, who had recently joined as director of Napoleon Dynamite and Chocolate.
sThe newly dubbed live-action adaptation was then scheduled to premiere in April 2025, according to an announcement made in April 2023. The SAG-AFTRA strike caused the shooting to be postponed from its original July 2023 start date. In January 2024, production finally got underway. After a protracted and somewhat contentious journey, fans will finally receive the cinematic treatment they have been craving since the 2011 launch of Minecraft.
Jason Momoa, Emma Myers, Danielle Brooks, Kate McKinnon, Jemaine Clement, Matt Berry, Sebastian Eugene Hansen, Jennifer Coolidge, and Jack Black are among the film’s actors. The director is Jared Hess, who has starred in Napoleon Dynamite and Chocolat. In “The Minecraft Movie,” four unlikely explorers are drawn through a gateway into the Overworld, a another dimension. Their goal is to find a path home while defending this strange wonderland against the malevolent Ender Dragon.
