The Minecraft movie, which will meet with the audience next year, has started to take shape. Famous actor Jack Black was also included in the cast of the movie starring Jason Momoa.
Video game adaptations, which until the last few years were mostly known for their disappointments, have started to reverse this bad trend in recent years. On the television side, there has been an acclaimed adaptation such as The Last of Us, while there have also been successful works on the cinema side. Super Mario Bros. Movie, which achieved great success at the box office last year, is the latest example of this.
The recent success of video game adaptations has whetted Hollywood’s appetite even more. As a matter of fact, the number of game adaptations in the pipeline is increasing rapidly. One of these projects is the Minecraft movie. The Minecraft movie, whose preparations accelerated after the screenwriter strike, started to take shape slowly. Jason Momoa, known for his role as Aquaman, will take on the lead role of the movie, and famous actor Jack Black has also joined the cast.
Minecraft Movie to be released in 2025
Jack Black, whose star has shone again in recent years both with his role in the new Jumanji movies and with his successful work on the voice acting side, is not a stranger to game adaptations. He also voiced the character Bowser in The Super Mario Bros. Movie.
Directed by Jared Hess, known for comedy films such as Napoleon Dynamite and Nacho Libre, Minecraft will star Jason Momoa and Jack Black as well as Matt Berry, Emma Meyers and Danielle Brooks.
Minecraft is the best-selling video game of all time, and Hollywood would not want to miss it, but its subject matter does not lend itself to adaptation into a movie. Therefore, it is difficult to predict what kind of work will emerge. It is of course possible to come up with a creative work using the limited material at hand, but when we look at it today, the names at the helm do not give much hope in this regard. Still, we will wait and see what kind of work will emerge. The Minecraft movie, which is planned to start shooting very soon, will meet the audience in 2025.
