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Jack Black is reportedly set to play Minecraft Steve. Deadline on Tuesday that the School of Rock actor will play the game’s blocky protagonist alongside Jason Momoa in the game’s long-delayed film adaptation.
The Minecraft adaptation has been . It’s cycled through at least three (Shawn Levy, Rob McElhenney and Peter Sollett) and two (2019 and 2022). Its current target date is April 4, 2025.
The writers for the project’s current iteration haven’t yet been revealed. However, adapting the sandbox building game into a plot-driven Hollywood blockbuster will allow for (and probably require) ample creativity from its scribes. A plot synopsis published in 2019 (which may or may not still apply) describes the film as following “a teenage girl and her unlikely group of adventurers. After the malevolent Ender Dragon sets out on a path of destruction, they must save their beautiful, blocky Overworld.”
Minecraft Steve
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Black is fresh off a beloved performance as Bowser in , where he showed the effectiveness of his larger-than-life comedic presence in gaming adaptations. IGN even that both of Black’s gaming roles — Bowser and Steve — in .
Napoleon Dynamite creator (and Black collaborator on Nacho Libre) Jared Hess will direct. Deadline says production will start soon on the film, which hails from Warner Bros, Vertigo, Legendary, Mojang / Microsoft and On the Roam. Emma Myers, Danielle Brooks and Sebastian Eugene Hansen have signed on to join Black and Momoa in the cast.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at
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The Minecraft adaptation has been . It’s cycled through at least three (Shawn Levy, Rob McElhenney and Peter Sollett) and two (2019 and 2022). Its current target date is April 4, 2025.
The writers for the project’s current iteration haven’t yet been revealed. However, adapting the sandbox building game into a plot-driven Hollywood blockbuster will allow for (and probably require) ample creativity from its scribes. A plot synopsis published in 2019 (which may or may not still apply) describes the film as following “a teenage girl and her unlikely group of adventurers. After the malevolent Ender Dragon sets out on a path of destruction, they must save their beautiful, blocky Overworld.”
Minecraft Steve
Mojang / Microsoft
Black is fresh off a beloved performance as Bowser in , where he showed the effectiveness of his larger-than-life comedic presence in gaming adaptations. IGN even that both of Black’s gaming roles — Bowser and Steve — in .
Napoleon Dynamite creator (and Black collaborator on Nacho Libre) Jared Hess will direct. Deadline says production will start soon on the film, which hails from Warner Bros, Vertigo, Legendary, Mojang / Microsoft and On the Roam. Emma Myers, Danielle Brooks and Sebastian Eugene Hansen have signed on to join Black and Momoa in the cast.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at
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