Kate McKinnon And Jermaine Clement Join Jason Mamoa For 'Mincecraft' Movie
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The already illustrious cast of Warner Bros. live-action adaptation of Mojan Studio’s popular video game Minecraft just got more exquisite: Kate McKinnon and Jemaine Clement join the likes of Jack Black, Jason Momoa, Danielle Brooks, Emma Myers, and Jennifer Coolidge in yet undisclosed roles.
McKinnon is best known for her appearances in Saturday Night Live, where she was part of the cast between 2012-2022 and earned 10 Primetime Emmy Award nominations and two wins in 2016 and 2017. Among her feature films are the 2016 version of Ghostbusters, The Spy Who Dumped Me, Yesterday, and Barbie, but she is also a prolific voice actor with films like Finding Dorie, The Angry Birds Movie or DC League of Super-Pets.
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Jemaine Clement is a New Zealand actor, comedian, musician, and filmmaker. Among his acting credits are roles in Man in Black 3, Avatar: The Way of Water, and What We Do in the Shadows, which he co-wrote with Taika Waititi and directed. Like McKinnon, he has done a lot of voice work (Rio, The BFG, Moana, The Lego Batman Movie).
Plans to bring Minecraft to the screen date back to 2012, when Mojan was pitched with the idea for a TV series but declined the offer. In 2014, Markus Persson (the creator of Minecraft) shut down a Kickstarter project that was trying to fund a Minecraft movie due to lacking a licensing agreement. In the same year, Mojan started negotiations with Warner Bros for a feature film, which could hit theatres in 2018. Over the years, several writers and directors like Shawn Levy or Rob McElhenney were attached to the project. Initially planned as an animated film, the concept later changed to live-action.
After years of delay, the movie has now finally gone before the cameras in New Zealand. Written by Chris Bowman and Hubbel Palmer and directed by Jarred Hess (Napoleon Dynamite, Nacho Libre) the general premise is that a teenage girl and a group of adventurers must protect the Overworld from the Ender Dragon.
The Minecraft movie is currently set for a release on April 4, 2025.
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