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 strains 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 children do) into discovering “a wonderland the place something you’ll be able to think about is feasible, so long as what you’ll be able to think about will be constructed out of blocks.” Hey, we all know a spot like that! Try the trailer right here:

There’s some potential enjoyable available right here—Jason Momoa as “Garrett ‘The Rubbish Man’ Garrison, gamer of the yr 1989,” with the hair to match—together with some stuff that feels all too acquainted, together with that overused MGMT track used to background the take 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, operating, 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 show you how to craft, it’s important to at least one’s survival!  4 misfits—Garrett “The Rubbish Man” Garrison (Momoa), Henry (Hansen), Natalie (Myers), and Daybreak (Brooks)—discover themselves combating atypical issues when they’re immediately pulled by way of a mysterious portal into the Overworld: a weird, cubic wonderland that thrives on creativeness.

To get again dwelling, 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 sudden, knowledgeable 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 inventive… 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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