A Minecraft Film is getting A Minecraft Sequel

If Hollywood has taught us something, it is {that a} blockbuster that makes financial institution will get a sequel (or seven). Enter A Minecraft Film, with its surprisingly efficient humor and $957 million box office payday. (Who had “Jack Black will anchor an almost billion-dollar film” on their 2025 bingo card?) So, it is no shock that Warner Bros. has formally greenlit a sequel.

Selection reports that Warner Bros. has penciled within the sequel for a July 23, 2027, premiere date. That might place it round two years after the unique, which is the second-highest-grossing movie of the yr to this point. (Disney’s Lilo & Sew is in first, with a cool $1.03 billion on the field workplace.)

The sequel will reportedly convey again director Jared Hess. The Napoleon Dynamite creator may also co-write the screenplay with Chris Galletta. Producers are mentioned to incorporate Mary Dad or mum, Cale Boyter, Roy Lee, Eric McLeod, Kayleen Walters, Torfi Frans Ólafsson and Jason Momoa.

Engadget was among the many many publications shocked by how good A Minecraft Movie was. In spite of everything, a movie about an open-ended building game, starring one of many leads of the crummy Borderlands, did not sound promising. However we discovered it surprisingly humorous, with simply the fitting diploma of winking self-awareness. On prime of that, Devindra Hardawar mentioned it “delivers an honest message about championing creativity in a world that wishes to beat down free-thinking non-conformists.” Amen to that.