The Minecraft Film’s New Trailer Certain Does Proceed to Look Like That

The brand new trailer for A Minecraft Movie is right here, and it traces up—with block-like precision, the truth is—with what we’ve seen of the movie so far, which not by coincidence resembles the best-selling online game it’s based mostly on.

It additionally digs into Jack Black‘s character Steve, who channeled his childhood longing to be miner (as youngsters do) into discovering “a wonderland the place something you possibly can think about is feasible, so long as what you possibly can think about might be constructed out of blocks.” Hey, we all know a spot like that! Take a look at the trailer right here:

There’s some potential enjoyable available right here—Jason Momoa as “Garrett ‘The Rubbish Man’ Garrison, gamer of the 12 months 1989,” with the hair to match—together with some stuff that feels all too acquainted, together with that overused MGMT tune used to background the have a look at Minecraft‘s adventures. There does seem like a plot, nevertheless, involving a team-up in opposition to “darkish forces,” with units each magical and sensible to assist out our heroes—who do equal quantities of quipping, working, and screaming from what we will inform.

Directed by Jared Hess (Napoleon Dynamite, Nacho Libre), A Minecraft Film additionally stars Emma Myers, Danielle Brooks, Sebastian Eugene Hansen, and Jennifer Coolidge.

Right here’s the official description: “Welcome to the world of Minecraft, the place creativity doesn’t simply assist you craft, it’s important to 1’s survival!  4 misfits—Garrett “The Rubbish Man” Garrison (Momoa), Henry (Hansen), Natalie (Myers), and Daybreak (Brooks)—discover themselves combating abnormal issues when they’re all of a sudden pulled by way of a mysterious portal into the Overworld: a weird, cubic wonderland that thrives on creativeness.

To get again house, they’ll should grasp this world (and defend it from evil issues like Piglins and Zombies, too) whereas embarking on a magical quest with an surprising, professional crafter, Steve (Black). Collectively, their journey will problem all 5 to be daring and to reconnect with the qualities that make every of them uniquely artistic… the very abilities they should thrive again in the actual world.”

A Minecraft Film hits theaters and IMAX in North America April 4, 2025, and internationally starting April 2, 2025. Will you be, ahem, blocking out time for this one?

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