A Minecraft Movie Is Getting A Minecraft Sequel

If Hollywood has taught america anything, it's that a blockbuster that makes slope will get a sequel (or seven). Enter A Minecraft Movie, pinch its amazingly effective joke and $957 cardinal container agency payday. (Who had "Jack Black will anchor a astir billion-dollar movie" connected their 2025 bingo card?) So, it's nary astonishment that Warner Bros. has officially greenlit a sequel.

Variety reports that Warner Bros. has penciled successful nan sequel for a July 23, 2027, premiere date. That would spot it astir 2 years aft nan original, which is nan second-highest-grossing movie of nan twelvemonth truthful far. (Disney's Lilo & Stitch is successful first, pinch a cool $1.03 cardinal astatine nan container office.)

The sequel will reportedly bring backmost head Jared Hess. The Napoleon Dynamite creator will besides co-write nan screenplay pinch Chris Galletta. Producers are said to see Mary Parent, Cale Boyter, Roy Lee, Eric McLeod, Kayleen Walters, Torfi Frans Ólafsson and Jason Momoa.

Engadget was among nan galore publications taken aback by how bully A Minecraft Movie was. After all, a movie astir an open-ended building game, starring 1 of nan leads of the crummy Borderlands, didn't sound promising. But we recovered it amazingly funny, pinch conscionable nan correct grade of winking self-awareness. On apical of that, Devindra Hardawar said it "delivers a decent connection astir championing productivity successful a world that wants to hit down free-thinking non-conformists." Amen to that.