Move over, Detective Pikachu, there’s an even stranger live-action video game movie on the way. And by that, I mean Warner Bros. just released the first teaser trailer for A Minecraft Movie. The film features actual humans and a slightly realistic CG take on Minecraft. But when you mix the game’s iconic blocky style with real life, you get, well, this:
A Minecraft Movie’s first trailer is equal parts goofy and creepy
A mix of live-action and unsettling CG.
A mix of live-action and unsettling CG.
Unsettling imagery aside, A Minecraft Movie looks like some silly family fun, with lots of one-liners, large-scale battles, and Jack Black exclaiming “I am Steve!” very proudly. And obviously, there’s both mining and crafting. Aside from Black, the movie also 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 in North America on April 4th.
Of course, we now live in a time when video game adaptations are no longer expected to be bad, so A Minecraft Movie will be released into a world with The Super Mario Bros. Movie and the Sonic the Hedgehog trilogy as competition. (The less said about Borderlands, the better.) It’s also not the only Minecraft adaptation in the works; Netflix is working on an animated series as well.
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