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 will place it round two years after the unique, which is the second-highest-grossing movie of the yr to date. (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 even co-write the screenplay with Chris Galletta. Producers are stated to incorporate Mary Mother or father, Cale Boyter, Roy Lee, Eric McLeod, Kayleen Walters, Torfi Frans Ólafsson and Jason Momoa.

Engadget was among the many many publications greatly surprised 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 high of that, Devindra Hardawar stated it “delivers a good message about championing creativity in a world that wishes to beat down free-thinking non-conformists.” Amen to that.