The first trailer for the upcoming Minecraft movie, titled A Minecraft Movie, arrived final week, giving us a primary have a look at Jason Momoa in a wig chewing numerous surroundings. The reactions have been fairly combined—it really is a baffling creation, and you may’t actually inform if this film goes to be a light-weight leisure traditional or a Borderlands-scale catastrophe.
One man watching on from the sidelines with amusement and curiosity is Markus “Notch” Persson, the creator of Minecraft. Notch first launched Minecraft in 2009, and oversaw its early years of improvement earlier than, in 2014, promoting the sport and Mojang Studios to Microsoft in a deal value $2.5 billion.
“Ok I’m in,” says Notch of the trailer. “Wow this can be a bizarre feeling.” The programmer went on to name it “fairly surreal” seeing his outdated challenge turning into a Hollywood film, and thinks it is “very cool they received Jack Black.”
As for the trailer itself: “For a film a few recreation with actually zero plot, it appears to be like surprisingly enjoyable,” says Notch. “I laughed… I believe twice. Yes, the sheep received me.” One consumer opines that it simply appears to be like like an advert for the sport starring Jack Black and Jason Momoa. “Well duh,” replies Notch.
“I’m all for the spectacle” says Notch, discussing his emotions on Minecraft turning into a film. “I in all probability would’ve even agreed to Uwe Boll making it. I haven’t got the identical relationship to the sport because the gamers do, for me it is extra about seeing new bizarre takes on concepts that typically have been simply spur-of-the-moment issues (just like the creeper!)”
Speaking of the creeper, the furry fashion of it within the film has not gone down properly with some. But Notch says he is “Sort of used to it due to the plushies, so it really works. In my authentic headcanon, they’ve extra like a pile-of-leaf-like texture. Rustling, you realize. But like I stated, the plushies kinda rewired my mind, so furry’s fantastic.”
Reactions to the trailer haven’t been universally optimistic, let’s consider, and Minecraft fan Kieran tells Notch “it appears to be like completely horrible and nothing like the sport you created.” Notch says “that is kinda why I’m into it. But I get it is in all probability totally different for individuals who performed the sport as an alternative of creating it.”
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There are a number of complaints about how the trailer and Jack Black symbolize Steve. “That simply makes it funnier to me,” says Notch, “however I’ve a distinct perspective than the individuals who truly performed Minecraft as an alternative of simply labored on it.” Oddly sufficient, somebody asks if Jack Black was any form of inspiration for Steve: “No, it was largely impressed by a Quake 1 pores and skin,” says Notch. “No thought why.”
The web being the web, quickly sufficient somebody stomps in to decry the characters as some “severe woke bullshit.” Notch says he would not care what course new characters go in: “Save that for once they’re pushing it on current lore. Who cares what the make-up is in a brand new story.” Elsewhere he provides “I’m hoping for lots of Jack Black over-acting. The plot could be no matter actually, since I by no means actually received to have that private expertise of enjoying the sport.”
Finally, Joey asks the query all Minecrafters need answered: “Okay, however do you suppose Herobrine’s gonna present up within the submit credit scene to kick off the MCU??”
“Haha,” says Notch, “oh wow.” Someone else speculates within the replies that the final word Easter egg could be a Notch cameo as Herobrine. Alas: “no visitor look,” says the person himself.
“Other than it being based mostly on work I did ten years in the past, I’m not linked to [the film] in any method,” says Notch. “And, to me personally, that is enjoyable, in a form of trippy nostalgia method. Also I used to be anticipating method worse.”
Words to stay by. Notch is at present engaged on a recreation referred to as Levers and Chests, which does not have a launch date. “I’ll attempt to get one thing out because it’s enjoyable (or at the very least attention-grabbing) to play,” says Notch. The Minecraft film is because of launch on 4 April, 2025.
