Jack Black will reportedly play Steve in the long-delayed Minecraft movie adapatation

Jack Black is reportedly set to play Minecraft Steve. Deadline wrote on Tuesday that the College of Rock actor will play the sport’s blocky protagonist alongside Jason Momoa within the sport’s long-delayed movie adaptation.

The Minecraft adaptation has been in development since 2014. It’s cycled by way of a minimum of three previous directors (Shawn Levy, Rob McElhenney and Peter Sollett) and two missed release windows (2019 and 2022). Its present goal date is April 4, 2025.

The writers for the mission’s present iteration haven’t but been revealed. Nevertheless, adapting the sandbox constructing sport right into a plot-driven Hollywood blockbuster will permit for (and possibly require) ample creativity from its scribes. A plot synopsis printed in 2019 (which can or could not nonetheless apply) describes the movie as following “a teenage lady and her unlikely group of adventurers. After the malevolent Ender Dragon units out on a path of destruction, they have to save their lovely, blocky Overworld.”

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Black is contemporary off a beloved efficiency as Bowser in The Super Mario Bros. Movie, the place he confirmed the effectiveness of his larger-than-life comedic presence in gaming diversifications. IGN even noted that each of Black’s gaming roles — Bowser and Steve — appeared in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.

Napoleon Dynamite creator (and Black collaborator on Nacho Libre) Jared Hess will direct. Deadline says manufacturing will begin quickly on the movie, which hails from Warner Bros, Vertigo, Legendary, Mojang / Microsoft and On the Roam. Emma Myers, Danielle Brooks and Sebastian Eugene Hansen have signed on to affix Black and Momoa within the solid.

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