Actor-musician Jack Black continues to be Hollywood’s go-to man for online game roles: He’ll play Steve in the upcoming Minecraft movie, in line with studies from Deadline and Variety. Black joins actors Jason Momoa (Aquaman), Danielle Brooks (Peacemaker), and Emma Myers (Wednesday) in the live-action adaptation of Mojang’s huge sandbox sport.
Black, in fact, starred in final 12 months’s billion-dollar blockbuster adaptation of the Tremendous Mario Bros. franchise as the voice of Bowser (and the crooner of “Peaches,” only one facet of what made him the very best factor about The Tremendous Mario Bros. Movie). Black additionally stars in the upcoming adaptation of Borderlands — he’s Claptrap — and in two Jumanji flicks. All of which is to underscore that Jack Black has severe gamer cred, thanks in no small half to his roles in Damaged Age, Psychonauts 2, and Tony Hawk’s Professional Skater 1 and a pair of.
We don’t know but what the Minecraft movie is about, with Deadline (worryingly) reporting that writing credit are “still being determined.” However we do know that director Jared Hess (Napoleon Dynamite) is helming the mission, and will reunite with Black after their work collectively on 2006’s Nacho Libre.
Some model of the Minecraft movie has been in the works for practically a decade. Director Shawn Levy (Night time on the Museum) was hooked up to the movie in its earliest phases. It’s All the time Sunny in Philadelphia creator and star Rob McElhenney was subsequent to take a crack at it, making an attempt to make a Minecraft-flavored journey in the type of 1985 cult traditional The Goonies. Director Peter Sollett (The Path) additionally tried, with a model about “a teenage girl and her unlikely group of adventurers” who attempt to save their blocky Overworld from an Ender Dragon. Hess got here aboard as director in 2022, alongside Momoa, and it’s not clear if the story has modified since Sollett’s try.
Minecraft’s Steve is the unique default character avatar for the sport, and has a feminine counterpart in Alex. Developer Mojang later added extra characters in the type of Ari, Efe, Kai, Makena, Noor, Sunny, and Zuri.
Warner Bros. and Legendary have the Minecraft movie set for an April 4, 2025 launch date. Manufacturing on the live-action initiatives is anticipated to kick off “imminently.”
