Fresh from seemingly completing the videogame adaptation with a starring role in the billion-dollar grossing The Super Mario Bros. Movie, Jack Black is set to return to pixelated form with the news that he has been added to the cast of Warner Bros. Minecraft movie.
With production set to get underway in New Zealand this month, Deadline reports that Black, who recently scored a Golden Globe nomination for his Super Mario song ‘Peaches’, will join Jason Momoa (Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom), Emma Myers (Wednesday), Danielle Brooks (Orange is the New Black) and Sebastian Eugene Hansen (Just Mercy) in the adaptation of the videogame phenomenon.
While plot details are being kept securely under wraps, the report does state that Black is set to play the game’s iconic character of Steve.
The long-gestating Minecraft movie has taken years to load, but will finally make the leap to the big-screen under the stewardship of Napoleon Dynamite‘s Jared Hess with WB, Vertigo, Legendary, Mojang/Microsoft and Momoa’s On the Roam producing.
The Mojang sandbox game launched in 2011 and has gone on to become the bestselling video game title of all time with an incredible 300 million sales across all platforms and 140 million monthly active users.
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