A number of Hollywood insiders are reporting that Aquaman himself, Jason Momoa, is within the ultimate phases of talks to star within the Minecraft film – so is Momoa going to be Minecraft Steve? That’s wanting unlikely proper now, because it appears the movie’s producers could be drawing much less from the sandbox sport and extra from Telltale’s Minecraft: Story Mode to construct the solid.
Initially reported by The Ankler, and individually confirmed by The Hollywood Reporter and Selection, Momoa is now within the ultimate negotiations to take the lead function in a live-action Minecraft film. Jared Hess, most likely greatest often called the director of Napoleon Dynamite, is on board to direct the movie.
That authentic Ankler article is paywalled, however as noted by Geoff Keighley, it means that Mamoa goes to play Gabriel the Warrior, a personality who originated in Minecraft: Story Mode. In fact, this film has already been by numerous iterations. At varied factors, it was going to be directed by Peter Sollett, it was going to star Steve Carell, and it was going to launch on March 4, 2022.
Developer Mojang proudly introduced the movie again in 2019 with a easy plot abstract: it’s “the story of a teenage woman and her unlikely group of adventurers. After the malevolent Ender Dragon units out on a path of destruction, they need to save their stunning, blocky Overworld.” Whether or not any factor of that story stays within the ultimate manufacturing stays to be seen, and that announcement has since been deleted from the Minecraft web site. (Archive.org has it, although.)
