From Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures and starring Jason Momoa and Jack Black, “A Minecraft Movie,” directed by Jared Hess, is the first-ever big screen, live-action adaptation of Minecraft, the best-selling video game of all time. The film also stars Emma Myers, Danielle Brooks, Sebastian Hansen, with Jennifer Coolidge.
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 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.
Taking on the role of Steve is Jack Black, the overgrown kid who no one understands on Earth but who finds the portal into the Minecraft world, and he is finally able to fulfil his creative imagination. But Steve gets more than he’d bargained for: a long time in a dark prison in the hellish Nether. Explaining the story, Black says, “It’s life or death, because they’re going up against the most fearsome monster you’ve ever heard of. Malgosha is a vicious piggy queen who’ll rip you apart and zap you into pork chops. But with a little luck, a little friendship, a little craftiness, and a little mining, our intrepid heroes can save the day. Will they save the day? Spoiler alert, I’m not telling. And that is the perfect synopsis of Minecraft, the movie.”
Black was drawn by the character of Steve. “He has tons of hilarious opportunities, and it’s a character I haven’t really played before,” says the actor. “Steve’s kind of a badass fierce warrior, and I don’t usually get to play that character. I get some fight scenes and some character growth because he’s kind of a character that doesn’t fit into society, a little bit of a loner. People don’t get him and they don’t appreciate his gifts and talents. And so goes into this Minecraft world where he can flourish and his creativity can go wild. Over the course of the movie, with these new characters and these friendships, he starts to grow. He learns that he can live in the real world and he can find a place for himself in the world of humans.”
Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures Present A Vertigo Entertainment/On The Roam/Mojang Studios Production, A Jared Hess Film, “A Minecraft Movie.” The film will be distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures worldwide and will release only in Cinemas in 3D and IMAX 3D in India on April 4, 2025 in English and Hindi.
