I can smell the dumpster fire already. I say they just put it out of it's misery and put a sassy black trans woman as the main character, fill the script with woke metaphors, label the underworld portal as "The Gamergate" and have the plot be all about destroying those who support it from the darkness beyond.
At least then it might have a chance of being reviewed favorably by a couple online rags.
This should've came out in 2014 or 15 for maximum financial success. If you want to suck off the kids with a movie, you shouldn't have waited 10 years to do it.
Maybe Story Mode with fallen legend Patton Oswalt was supplementary.
Prepare for the usual virgin sperging about the genderbender for wokebucks and the resulting "gamers are entitled and won't let us do everything the way we want"-articles.
I never thought I'd actually get tired of that, but I am. I'm fucking old.
Why is it focusing on a teenage girl and not Steve? Also live action? Really? I fail to see how this game in particular could ever translate well, the blocks and building mechanics which make up a ton of the game won't work. This is either going to be Minecraft in name only with very little connection to the source material, or super cheesy.
I'm calling it now: it's going to be a high school romcom (with a hint of action) with a Nickelodeon cast, bland humor, safe plot and Minecraft terminology will be peppered here and there to justify the title (e.g. Minecraft High). Supernatural elements might be present. Think Dragon Ball Evolution, but with a bit more budget.
Up there speculation for fun: The "Ender Dragon" is a gamer club of white males that bully minorities in school.
As you guys have said, they should have released this 10 years ago to maximize profits. But I'm calling it now, this movie is gonna bomb hard. Why the fuck would you make it live action and not animated? This movie is gonna be cringe worthy!