Minecraft: The Movie (2023)

Minecraft: The Movie is an animated film produced by Mojang Studios and Warner Animation Group in 2023. It is based on the best-selling computer game Minecraft, as well as creepypastas and fanons like Herobrine and Null.

The malicious Ender Dragon embarks on a destructive path, causing a young girl and her unusual band of heroes to set out to preserve the Overworld.

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Minecraft: The Movie Plot

Alex urges Steve not to dig straight down but he doesn’t listen so he delves into the deep dark cave of the warden and gets murdered. To revenge his death, she gathers resources, fights in caverns, and must overcome the wither in order to get netherite armour and equipment to destroy the warden. When she arrives at the warden’s cave, she is on half a heart when Steve appears as a ghost and offers her charmed golden apples, which she consumes and slays the great warden, while Steve is resurrected. Steve apologizes for not listening, and then they create a home in which they both sleep.

Minecraft: The Movie Trivia

Shawn Levy was supposed to make this film, but he dropped out following arguments with the Minecraft developers, who considered his premise was inappropriate for the game.

Minecraft: The Movie Directed by

Jared Hess

Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)

Chris Bowman
Hubbel Palmer
Markus Persson		(video game)
Allison Schroeder		(screenplay)
Peter Sollett		(screenplay)

Produced by

Jon Berg		executive producer / producer
Cale Boyter		executive producer
Vu Bui		executive producer / producer
Roy Lee		producer
Mary Parent		producer
Jon Spaihts		executive producer
Lydia Winters		executive producer

Music by

Evan Frankfort
Bryan Master

Art Direction by

Craig Humphries
Helen Jarvis		supervising art director
Evan Webber

Art Department

Jill Blackledge		art department coordinator: los angeles
Loree Cameron		graphic designer
Danelle Davenport		storyboard artist
William Groebe		storyboard artist
Frank Ippolito		concept design fabrication: Thingergy INC.
Igor Knezevic		conceptual set designer
Howard Lau		digital set designer
Kayla Meadows		art department assistant
Piotr Swigut		concept artist
Peter Toufidis		concept artist
Brian Wade		digital character model maker
Kayla Meadows		model maker (uncredited)

Visual Effects by

Jim Berney		visual effects supervisor
Kaushalya Dattwani		digital compositor
Thomas Elder-Groebe		visual effects producer
William Groebe		animation director
Kevin McAllister		visual effects production supervisor

Stunts

Juliana Potter

motion capture

Casting Department

Georgia Simon

adr voice casting

Music Department

Lauren Ditmer

Music Production

Additional Crew

Connor Tkachuk

assistant production coordinator

Minecraft: The Movie Release Dates

It looks like we don’t have any release dates for this title yet.

Jason Momoa is reportedly in talks to join the cast of the next Minecraft film

For years, production on a Minecraft film adaptation has been on hold. Mojang began receiving approaches from Hollywood filmmakers as early as 2012, but the Sweden-based firm turned them down. That changed when an industry behemoth approached; towards the end of 2014, Mojang and Warner Bros. were believed to be in “early development” on a Minecraft film.

There hasn’t been any movement on the video game plot since then. Shawn Levy, the director of Real Steel, was initially attached to the project but stepped out shortly after. Throughout the 2010s, Minecraft went through a number of filmmakers, and the inability to get a director placed the film’s ambitious May 2019 release date in jeopardy. It was subsequently pushed back to March 2022, but the epidemic rendered that new deadline unreachable once again.

While video game film adaptations have typically been a flop, recent movies have added some huge W’s to the hit column. Uncharted and Sonic the Hedgehog 2 released in spring 2021, and both games’ fans were pleased, as were the box office earnings.

With Sony and Paramount smashing their video game adaptations, Warner Bros. is hoping to cash in on their decade-old ticket by bringing in a known box office attraction as Minecraft’s lead.