Move implicit Detective Pikachu, there’s an adjacent alien live-action video crippled movie connected the way. And by that I mean Warner Bros. conscionable released the archetypal teaser trailer for A Minecraft Movie. The movie features existent humans and a somewhat realistic CG instrumentality connected Minecraft. But erstwhile you premix the game’s iconic blocky benignant with existent beingness you get, well, this:
Image: Warner Bros. Pictures
Unsettling imagery aside, A Minecraft Movie looks similar immoderate silly household fun, with tons of one-liners, large-scale battles, and Jack Black exclaiming “I americium Steve!” precise proudly. And evidently there’s some mining and crafting. Aside from Black, the movie besides stars Jason Momoa, Emma Myers, Danielle Brooks, Sebastian Eugene Hansen, and Jennifer Coolidge. It’s directed by Jared Hess of Napoleon Dynamite fame, and is hitting theaters connected April 2nd, 2025.
Of course, we present unrecorded successful a clip erstwhile video crippled adaptations are nary longer expected to beryllium bad, truthful A Minecraft Movie volition beryllium released into a satellite with The Super Mario Bros. Movie and the Sonic the Hedgehog trilogy arsenic competition. (The little said astir Borderlands, the better.) It’s besides not the lone Minecraft adaptation successful the works; Netflix is moving connected an animated bid arsenic well.