Jason Momoa and Jack Black Enter a Pixelated Paradise in ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Trailer
As four misfits explore a pixelated paradise in the new A Minecraft Movie teaser trailer, they stumble into the video game’s protagonist, played by Jack Black, who belches the words “I am Steve.” The misfits look unamused. Jason Momoa’s character scoffs at his introduction, and Emma Myers’ character calls him “such a toolbag.”
The misfits — Garrett “The Garbage Man” Garrison (Momoa), Henry (Sebastian Eugene Hansen), Natalie (Myers) and Dawn (Danielle Brooks) — find themselves battling everyday problems when they’re launched into a portal into the Overworld, a blocky wonderland filled with cube-shaped sheep, armored clans of pigs, and explosive creepers. To return home, they must master the world and fend off deadly threats with the help of craftsman Steve (Black). Jared Hess, known for Napoleon Dynamite and Nacho Libre, directs. The cast of the Warner Bros. film also includes Jennifer Coolidge.
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In the video game Minecraft, created by Swedish video game developer Markus “Notch” Persson, players have free rein to explore the infinite Lego-style world, collecting resources, digging tunnels, foraging for food, and building shelter all while fending off zombie attacks and arrow-shooting skeletons.
In the game’s first year, Minecraft reached about 20,000 downloads and has since become one of the best-selling video games with more than 300 million copies sold, as of October 2023. Peter Molyneux, the developer behind Dungeon Keeper, talked to Rolling Stone in 2014 about the accidental success of Minecraft.
“There are game-design rules that are carved in stone — about teaching people to play, having objectives, a character, an adversary,” Molyneux told Rolling Stone. “Minecraft threw all that away.”
A Minecraft Movie will arrive on April 4.
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