The Minecraft Movie’s New Trailer Sure Does Continue to Look Like That

The caller trailer for A Minecraft Movie is here, and it lines up—with block-like precision, successful fact—with what we’ve seen of the movie truthful far, which not by coincidence resembles the best-selling video crippled it’s based on.

It besides digs into Jack Black‘s quality Steve, who channeled his puerility longing to beryllium miner (as kids do) into discovering “a wonderland wherever thing you tin ideate is possible, arsenic agelong arsenic what you tin ideate tin beryllium built retired of blocks.” Hey, we cognize a spot similar that! Check retired the trailer here:

There’s immoderate imaginable amusive to beryllium had here—Jason Momoa arsenic “Garrett ‘The Garbage Man’ Garrison, gamer of the twelvemonth 1989,” with the hairsbreadth to match—along with immoderate worldly that feels each excessively familiar, including that overused MGMT opus utilized to inheritance the look astatine Minecraft‘s adventures. There does look to beryllium a plot, however, involving a team-up against “dark forces,” with devices some magical and applicable to assistance retired our heroes—who bash adjacent amounts of quipping, running, and screaming from what we tin tell.

Directed by Jared Hess (Napoleon Dynamite, Nacho Libre), A Minecraft Movie besides stars Emma Myers, Danielle Brooks, Sebastian Eugene Hansen, and Jennifer Coolidge.

Here’s the authoritative description: “Welcome to the satellite of Minecraft, wherever creativity doesn’t conscionable assistance you craft, it’s indispensable to one’s survival!  Four misfits—Garrett “The Garbage Man” Garrison (Momoa), Henry (Hansen), Natalie (Myers), and Dawn (Brooks)—find themselves struggling with mean problems erstwhile they are abruptly pulled done a mysterious portal into the Overworld: a bizarre, cubic wonderland that thrives connected imagination.

To get backmost home, they’ll person to maestro this satellite (and support it from evil things similar Piglins and Zombies, too) portion embarking connected a magical quest with an unexpected, adept crafter, Steve (Black). Together, their escapade volition situation each 5 to beryllium bold and to reconnect with the qualities that marque each of them uniquely creative… the precise skills they request to thrive backmost successful the existent world.”

A Minecraft Movie hits theaters and IMAX successful North America April 4, 2025, and internationally opening April 2, 2025. Will you be, ahem, blocking retired clip for this one?

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