The first Minecraft movie Trailer was a mess. It felt tonally wrong, the humor didn’t quite land, and the live-action aesthetic was confusing. Stars Jack Black and Jason Momoa looked like they were in different galaxies. Children will probably still love the finished thingbut droves of online commenters were immediately put off. The leadership of the adaptation got it. “We were prepared for anything,” they said.
A Minecraft movie dThe film is directed by Jared Hess and produced by Torfi Frans Olafsson Minecraft franchise, recently responded to the reaction to the first trailer in an interview with IGN. “I mean, we knew that this game represented so many different things to so many different people,” Hess said. “We knew that whatever we presented, there would be strong opinions across the spectrum of what people expected and wanted. Everyone brings their own special personal connection to the game.”
One of the big questions was why Minecraft The film is a live-action film with tons of VFX and not just fully CGI animated, as fans might have expected from a film based on the hit survival crafting game. A fan-made trailer that was basically a shot-for-shot remake of the official trailer, only in Minecraft itself seemed designed to provoke this question and quickly went viral
“I mean, that was one of the things [fans were saying in response to the trailer]’Why is it live-action? Why isn’t it animated?’ I think a lot of people expected that, and just the fact that there was live action and direct real characters and physical sets didn’t feel right to them because in their imagination they had been playing it for a very long time a long time ago,” said Olafsson IGN. “And they projected and saw a lot of content that was obviously created by both of us, the community. We created a story mode. We’ve created animated content before, and there’s plenty of it.”
Olafsson explained that one of the reasons for a live-action adaptation is precisely because it is different and has never been done before. It was also something that had been set in motion a long time ago. Warner Bros. started working with Minecraft The fact that creator Mojang produced a film back in 2014 and the current version, scheduled for release in 2025, is the result of a long and chaotic process in which the project changed creative hands several times.
“This film took a very, very long time to develop,” Olafsson said. “Many of the people who will see it weren’t born yet when the first contracts and the first discussions were had, and there was always live action.”
According to Hess, there were also a lot of things, like Momoa using the crafting table, that just didn’t come across right in the quickly edited context of the first trailer. The duo seems confident that the way these gameplay elements are communicated and fleshed out in the film itself will make a lot more sense to longtime fans.
Apparently the first test listeners agree. The couple says early showings of the Minecraft In contrast to the first trailer, the film received positive feedback, even without finished VFX. “People say, ‘That has nothing to do with the trailer.’ “This film is great,” Olafsson said. The film is scheduled to hit theaters on April 4 next year. A second trailer, released today, looks much better.
