When Will the Minecraft Movie Release? MojangĪfter more than a decade of development, and several writers and directors, in April 2023, the Minecraft movie was officially given a release date. Since then, the movie has been through several directors, eventually settling on Napoleon Dynamite and Nacho Libre filmmaker Jared Hess to helm the project.
and developer Mojang in early 2014, saying that the film was in 'early development.'
The project has been in the pipeline as far back as 2012, with the earliest announcement of the title coming from Warner Bros. With the Minecraft movie heading to theaters, here is everything we know about the latest video game to blockbuster adaptation.Īfter becoming one of the biggest games of all time, selling over 238 million copies as of April 2021 (via Statista), it felt like it was only a matter of time before Hollywood turned its gaze to the pixilated brick-based world.