Written by Edwin Francisco
Aquaman‘s Jason Momoa will star in Warner Bros. Discovery’s live-action movie version of Minecraft. The studio hopes this is Jason Momoa’s next huge franchise outside of DC Films.
It’s been a decade now since there was an initial plan to make a film or TV show based on the popular sandbox video game Minecraft. A
TV series based on Minecraft has been in development since 2012. In 2014, creator Markus Persson revealed that Warner Bros. Pictures was in talks with Mojang to develop a movie.
However, the movie jumped from one director to another for many years. For a time, it even had Free Guy director Shawn Levy with Wonder Woman writer Jason Fuchs.
Jason Momoa Will Star In Live-Action Minecraft Film
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At some point, Steve Carell (The Office) signed on to lead the Minecraft film.
Now The Hollywood Reporter reveals that Jason Momoa is in final talks to star in Minecraft. Jason Momoa’s popularity exploded with DC movies like Aquaman and Zack Snyder’s Justice League. Jason Momoa recently appeared in Dune.
Moreover, Jason Momoa will return in Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom.
Persson created Minecraft in 2009 under his own company, Mojang. During its beta development stage on the PC (Java Edition) is where it got really popular. It’s the first game that people saw that they can create anything they wanted inside the game. As long as you are fine with cubes as your main material throughout the entire game.
Nothing is out of reach.
From a small village to Star Trek ships to working computers inside the game, it was limitless. The world it provided you was almost infinite.
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The game has been ported to the iOS, Android, Xbox360, XboxOne, PlayStation3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, WiiU, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo 3DS, and a DirectX version for Windows10.
It’s unknown what the plan is with the Minecraft movie being live action. Maybe possibly a mix of live action and animation?
After all, The LEGO Movie (2014) did great. It was mostly animation, but also included live-action sections that made sense to the overall plot. Or do they plan a movie similar to Adam Sandler film Pixels which incorporated live action set pieces with CG animation?
Pixels resulted in a mess, but don’t blame the effects on that.