Warner Bros. Pictures released an official teaser of A Minecraft Movie which is the live-action cinematic adaptation of Microsoft-owned game developer Mojang’s game Minecraft, the best-selling video game of all time.
Directed by American filmmaker Jared Hess (Napoleon Dynamite, Gentlemen Broncos, Nacho Libre), the film stars Jason Momoa (Aquaman), Jack Black (The Super Mario Bros. Movie), Emma Myers (Wednesday), Oscar nominee Danielle Brooks (The Color Purple), Sebastian Eugene Hansen (Just Mercy, Lisey’s Story) and Jennifer Coolidge (A Mighty Wind). It is a Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures production.
The official synopsis reads as follows:
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 film is produced by Roy Lee, Jon Berg, Mary Parent, Cale Boyter, Jason Momoa, Jill Messick, Torfi Frans Olafsson and Vu Bui. The executive producers for the film are Todd Hallowell, Kayleen Walters, Brian Mendoza, Jonathan Spaihts, Pete Chiappetta, Andrew Lary and Anthony Tittanegro.
The director’s creative team behind the camera includes BAFTA-nominated director of photography Enrique Chediak (127 Hours, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts), Oscar-winning production designer Grant Major (The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The Meg), editor James Thomas (Pokémon: Detective Pikachu, the Borat films), Oscar-winning VFX supervisor Dan Lemmon (The Jungle Book, The Batman), and costume designer Amanda Neale (The Meg, What We Do in the Shadows). The casting for the movie is by Rachel Tenner (Severance, Fargo). The music supervisors are Gabe Hilfer and Karyn Rachtman, and the music is by Mark Mothersbaugh (Thor: Ragnarok, The LEGO Movie).
A Minecraft Movie will be distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures worldwide and by Legendary East in China, and will be released in theatres and IMAX in North America on 4 April 2025, and internationally beginning 2 April 2025.