The lengthy past due “Minecraft” film from Warner Bros. will reportedly celebrity “Aqua Guy” and “Dune” actor Jason Momoa, The Hollywood Reporter showed Monday.
Momoa, who made his performing debut as Jason Loane at the syndicated motion drama sequence “Baywatch: Hawaii,” is in “ultimate negotiations” to be the main actor, consistent with The Hollywood Reporter and Selection.
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The movie has additionally tapped Jared Hess, who directed the 2011 cultural phenomenon “Napoleon Dynamite,” to sign up for the workforce as director.
Minecraft, the first-person survival recreation printed via Mojang Studios, hit the scene in November 2011. when the 1st installment within the franchise got here out.
The sport, which shall we customers discover countless worlds and construct anything else from the most simple of houses to the grandest of castles, has observed nice luck, with the newest model, Minecraft Dungeons, being unveiled in Would possibly 2020.
Enthusiasts had been eagerly looking ahead to the movie for the reason that challenge was once in the beginning introduced in 2014, however long-running manufacturing problems have driven again its liberate for years.
Shawn Levy (“Night time on the Museum”), Rob McElhenney (“It’s At all times Sunny in Philidelphia”) and Peter Sollett (“Nick and Norah’s Endless Playlist”) have all been in talks to direct up to now.
Throughout the pandemic, the “Minecraft” film skilled but some other extend because of Warner Bros. lining up “The Batman” to be launched forward of “Minecraft.”
Regardless of the manufacturing setbacks, it might make sense for Warner Bros. to in the end take the reins at the challenge as Minecraft has 141 million lively avid gamers international and has raked in over $415 million since its liberate in 2011.
Explicit main points at the movie’s plot stay a thriller, however lovers be expecting to peer the movie in theaters faster moderately than later since Warner Bros.′ rights to Minecraft as a film challenge expire in January, this means that manufacturing must get started this yr, consistent with The Ankler.
A liberate date for the movie has but to be introduced.