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Crafting a Blockbuster: How ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Brought the Wacky, Cubic Video Game to Life
"A Minecraft Movie" from Warner Bros., Legendary and Microsoft brings the bestselling video game to life — will the risk pay off?
There’s no storyline or single way to play: Users can make objects, build structures, fight enemy mobs, befriend animals and explore the islands crafted by other players. And yet, “A Minecraft Movie” features spicy stars Jason Momoa and Danielle Brooks (along with young Emma Myers and Sebastian Eugene Hansen) as a ragtag bunch of misfits who find themselves transported to the fantastical cubic world, guided by Jack Black as an expert crafter named Steve. “He was just completely manic, hoarding stuff in the mines, searching for lapis lazuli because he liked the way it sounds,” Ólafsson recalls, mentioning the bright-blue stones that figure into the game.
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