Plans for a 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Minecraft movie were first announced in 2014. Yes, it has taken them that long. However, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:after cycling through directors and 168澳洲幸运5开൩奖网:sailing past its planned release date 👍in 2022, it seemed safe to assume the big screen adaptation of Minecraft was no more. But 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:its first trailer has🤪 recently debuted and confirmed a release date of April 4, 2025. Three years after it was supposed to be here, and more than a decade after work on it began. And peo🦹ple accuse video games of having long turnarounds.

With stars like Jason Momoa and Jack Black - who is now contractually obliged to play a leading role in every video game movie - among its star-studded cast, it was almost impossible to know what to expect until that first trailer hit. Turns out Momoa and his supporting cast aren’t voicing animated characters but will be live-action in a blocky Minecraft world. Even Black, who plays Steve, is𒊎 just himself wearing a light blue t-shirt. He didn’t even shave the beard.

Needless to say, that has rubbed a few of you the wrong way. I can understand why, especially after 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:watching the f♏anmade recreation of the trailer where all of the actors have been turned into animated Minecraft characters. That’s not the only example of Minecraft’s characters and surrounding environments fans have been pointing to since the trailer dropped. There’s also Story Mode, an episodic Minecraft adventure created with help from 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Telltale Games, with some suggesting that approach would have beenꦡ a better way to go fꦬor a full movie.

Minecraft Won't Be The Next Sonic

There’s evidence in situations like these that the studios responsible are listening and, if your complaints are loud enough, something will be done. Take Sonic, one of the adaptations responsible for turning public opinion on video game movies. The initial design for the live-action movie Sonic was bad. Real bad. So bad the reactions forced Paramount and Sega to delay the movie and redesign thඣe Blue Blur.

The thing is, Minecraft ain’t Sonic. Sonic needed to appeal to adults and kids alike since it leaned on the nostalgia of the former to potentially bring in more of the latter. I took my little cousin to see the first Sonic movie and she has been a Sonic fan ever since. While a huge chunk of Minecraft players are adults, the bulk of its player base, and the audienc🥀e Warner Bros. cares about, are kids.

As long as the Minecraft movie appeals to kids, and it will, then it will be a success. I’m certain the movie will do well with kids because not only do I live with a Minecraft-obsessed four-year-old, but when I walk him to school each morning, it’s a sea of Minecraft merch everywhere you look. Minecraft backpacks, lunchboxes, kids talking about stuff they’ve built and found, pretending the real world around them is made up of Minecraft blocks and filled with its characters and creatures. All of them will want to see this movie, and we’ll be seeing it too since we’re the one who will have to take them. Almost 25 years to the day and making my dad take me to see the first Pokemon movie has finally come back around to bite me.

It's Already Very Clear Who The Minecraft Movie Is For

I’m not a Minecraft fan so when I saw the trailer for the first time, I was neither excited nor offended. However, when I showed it to my son, he hit the roof. He’s not bothered about Momoa and his terrible wig. The realisation he was watching a trailer from the Minecraft movie quickly turned to him jumping up and down behind me on the sofa as he ran me through what we were seeing. Excitedly pointing out the Piglins, correcting me when I called the Creeper a zombie, and laughing hysterically at the llama at the end. He even questioned how they were making stuff rather than critiquing it which I’ve seen a lot of since the trailer dropped, and gasped when Black proclaimed himself to be Steve. I thought he’d be impressed when I told him that’s the same guy who plays Bowser in the Mario movie, but that just seemed to confuse him.

Of course (like Sonic), there are movies that appeal to children and adults. Minecraft should have been one of them. So far,ඣ that doesn’t seem to be the case, but Warner Bros. is unlikely to mind as it’s more concerned about kids liking the Minecraft movie than adults. There’s a reason WB has cast world famous actors like Black and Momoa and has a Beatles track playing in the trailer, a🌺nd it’s not to impress my four-year-old son. But the jokes, the references, they’re all for the kids. Unfortunately, it doesn’t matter too much how we feel about them. By this time next year, Minecraft will likely be the second highest-grossing video game movie of all time.

I’m going to end up ha෴ving that last sentence quoted back to me a lot if this thi🌳ng fails, aren’t I?