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Minecraft Movie To Compete With Avengers and Star Wars In 2019 (polygon.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the coming-soon-to-a-theater-near-you dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Warner Bros. announced today that it will be releasing its upcoming Minecraft movie on May 25, 2019, if all things go according to plan. It will be competing directly with Lucasfilm's Star Wars: Episode IX film, which will be released the same weekend, only a few weeks after Marvel's Infinity War film. The Minecraft movie has already faced some problems. The film's original director, Shawn Levy, left the project in 2014 after his Goonies-inspired movie idea was rejected by Warner Bros. executives. Mojang announced a new director for the movie last July -- Rob McElhenney, star of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. The movie is likely to be a hit at the box office as the game has a massive following. Earlier this month, Mojang announced the game passed 100 million sales across all platforms, including PC, Mac, consoles and mobile.

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  1. Likely to be a hit? by Z80a · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If anything, movies about really popular game franchises are generally the ones that bomb the hardest, given those kind of games are centered on their gameplay rather than story, which puts the director, writer etc.. in a really bad pickle, and we end with things like Super mario the movie.

  2. Games vs. Movies by Opportunist · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How many good movies can you name that were styled after a game? A few (and a metric ton of crappy ones).

    How many good movies can you name that were styled after a sandbox game? Umm... erh ... well...

    Folks, movies and games are different media. For good reasons. Have you ever watched someone play Minecraft (for other reasons than to learn how to do something new in Minecraft)? That's even more boring than watching someone fish.

    For the same reasons I don't get "e-sports" by the way. Playing a shooter is fun. But why the fuck would I want to watch someone do it?

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  3. Re:compete? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    They're not. It's a stupid headline to get clicks.

    Avengers is the same movie you just watched two times already, and is being re-hashed a third time.
    Star Wars is JJ Abrams' grand apology for being a heterosexual male.
    MineCraft is a 2 hour commercial for a video game.