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‘A Minecraft Movie’s Jared Hess Talks Sequel, The Man Crush Between Jack Black And Jason Momoa & Hitting Zeitgeist Gold Decades After ‘Napoleon Dynamite’
'A Minecraft Movie' director Jared Hess teases a sequel, talks about the man crush between Jack Black and Jason Momoa and more in a Q&A
After living a mostly low key career after he and wife Jerusha launched with the Sundance sensation Napoleon Dynamite in 2004, director Jared Hess has come roaring back with A Minecraft Movie, a true sleeper from Warner Bros and Legendary that is outpacing the early returns of other WB releases like Barbie and The Dark Knight. Hess ponders ringing that elusive Zeitgeist bell twice, why a Minecraft sequel is so much more plausible than Napoleon Dynamite 2, and why the movie overperformed when so many game-based films fail. When you’re working with Jack Black and Jason Mamoa and Daniel Brooks and Jennifer Coolidge and the whole cast, it’s like we just spent a ton of time coming up with what really was funny to us.
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