The live-action (kinda) adaptation of Minecraft is creeping ever closer to theaters, and today we got a trailer that gives us our first good glimpse of what the heck this film will look like.
For those who don’t know, Minecraft is the best-selling game of all time, where players create worlds out of block-shaped pieces. According to the teaser for the film, which is accurately titled A Minecraft Movie, it looks like some humans played by Jason Momoa, Emma Myers (Wednesday), Danielle Brooks (The Color Purple, Peacemaker, Orange is the New Black), and the young Sebastian Eugene Hansen (Just Mercy), find themselves in Minecraft land.
What are they doing there? Here’s what the synopsis tells us:
Welcome to the world of Minecraft, where creativity doesn’t just help you craft, it’s essential to one’s survival! Four misfits—Garrett “The Garbage Man” Garrison (Momoa), Henry (Hansen), Natalie (Myers), and Dawn (Brooks)—find themselves struggling with ordinary problems when they are suddenly pulled through a mysterious portal into the Overworld: a bizarre, cubic wonderland that thrives on imagination. To get back home, they’ll have to master this world (and protect it from evil things like Piglins and Zombies, too) while embarking on a magical quest with an unexpected, expert crafter, Steve (Black). Together, their adventure will challenge all five to be bold and to reconnect with the qualities that make each of them uniquely creative… the very skills they need to thrive back in the real world.
The teaser does give us a glimpse of some of the block-shaped characters (including a square-faced llama) that are unsurprisingly disturbing though not quite as bad as the original Sonic the Hedgehog we saw in those film adaptations. We also see Jack Black as Minecraft Steve in full live-action form, even though his video game counterpart is the first avatar that players could take on.
A Minecraft Movie is directed by Jared Hess (Napoleon Dynamite, Nacho Libre). It also features actors Kate McKinnon, Jermaine Clement, and Jennifer Coolidge, and is set to come out “sometime in 2025.”
Check out the teaser trailer below.
