Jack Black and Jason Momoa to star in ‘Minecraft’ movie

Jack Black will be part of the cast of the feature film ‘Minecraft’ starring Jason Momoa, Deadline magazine reported this Tuesday.

According to that specialized media, the Warner Bros. film based on the video game of the same name will soon begin shooting in New Zealand.

In addition to Momoa and Black, the film will also feature, among others Emma Myersknown for the role Enid Sinclair in the series ‘Wednesday‘, with Danielle Brooks, from the film ‘Purple‘.

The project is under management Jared Hessauthor of films like ‘Napoleon Dynamite‘ (2004) or ‘Gentlemen Broncos’ (2009), with whom Black worked on ‘Nacho Libre’ (2006).

According to the description of the online movie database IMDb, ‘Minecraft‘follow the story of’malevolent ender dragon“and the effort of the girl and her adventurers friends to save the world from their attempts at destruction.

The film has a writer and a designer among its screenwriters original video game Markus Persson and Chris Bowman and Hubbel Palmer, who worked with Hess in the film ‘Masterminds’ (2015) and in the animated series ‘Napoleon Dynamyte’ (2012).

Created in 2011, ‘Minecraft’ is one of the best-selling video games in history and has more than 140 million monthly users.

Players explore a three-dimensional world in a video game and pixelated in which they can discover and mine raw materials, craft tools and items, and build structures and machines to create virtual worlds.

This is not the first time that Black, the main character “School of Rock”gets involved in a project inspired by video games.

In 2019, he participated in the film ‘Jumanji Next Level’, recently playing the villain bowser in a hit movie ‘Super Mario Bros Movie’ and will soon star in Eli Roth’s ‘Borderlands’.