‘Minecraft’ Director Says There’s Already Sequel Talk

A Minecraft Movie director Jared Hess has teased “it seems like there’s already talk” about a sequel.

The blockbuster, which is based on the popular adventure-sandbox video game of the same name, has proved to be a major commercial hit since it landed in cinemas last Friday, and Hess, 45, has now hinted a follow-up flick might be on the horizon.

Speaking about a possible sequel with Deadline, the filmmaker said: “Oh, man. Well, it would be so much fun … We had so much fun making this movie, and it’s such an expansive world in the game, and there were so many things that we didn’t tap into that we wanted to.”

“I would have a blast doing the sequel, and it seems like there’s already talk about it happening, so I’m super excited. It’ll be so much fun to go back into the world.”

“The fans are just having such a good time. We teased it in the end credits, and the fans seem to be going wild for it.

In the end credits scene, Steve (Jack Black) meets Alex, Minecraft’s other playable protagonist, and Hess has hinted any such sequel would bring in the character.

The Napoleon Dynamite director shared: The character we teased is Alex, the other massively critical character in Minecraft. It’s Steve and Alex, and so that’s the one that we will be bringing to the table without a doubt.”

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A Minecraft Movie follows four misfits — Garret ‘The Garbage Man’ Garrison (Jason Momoa), Henry (Sebastian Hansen), Natalie (Emma Myers), and Dawn (Danielle Brooks) — who are transported through a mysterious portal into the Overworld, a cubic realm thriving on imagination.

To return home, they must master this new world and embark on a quest alongside expert crafter Steve (Black), confronting various challenges and creatures along the way.

When it hit theaters last week, A Minecraft Movie proved to be a smash hit, bringing in $313 million globally in its opening weekend.

Reflecting on A Minecraft Movie, Hess suggested a large contributing factor to the film’s success was the “immense audience” the 2009 video game has, with the source material itself allowing him to create a “ridiculously fun and funny adventure movie” that has a broad appeal.

He explained: “There was an immense audience that was so passionate about the game and for whom Minecraft was such a key part of their childhood adolescence, just something that they loved.”

“The game itself is so creative, but it’s also ridiculous and really funny and absurd in so many ways … that was so much of the appeal to me in adapting it. It was like, how can you just do a ridiculously fun and funny adventure movie in this world, all of those goofy, dorky things we just really tried to celebrate and were super conscious of while making it?”