Jason Momoa-Led Minecraft Movie Sets April 2025 Release Date

Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom’s release date has also been moved up by five days, now out December 20.

Written by Rahul Chettiyar, Edited by Ali Pardiwala | Updated: 6 April 2023 13:03 IST

Jason Momoa-Led Minecraft Movie Sets April 2025 Release Date

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Jason Momoa was cast in the Minecraft movie last year

Highlights

Jared Hess (Napoleon Dynamite) is attached to direct the Minecraft movie
The live-action adaptation has been in development on-and-off since 2014
Aquaman 2 has switched places with The Color Purple

The Jason Momoa-led live-action Minecraft movie finally has a release date. Warner Bros. has confirmed that the troubled adaptation of the block-building sandbox video game will hit theatres on April 4, 2025. Currently, there are no plot or character details for what Momoa could play, but it lists Jared Hess as the director, best known for Napoleon Dynamite. Buzz around a Minecraft movie began in 2014 when Shawn Levy (Free Guy) quit working on the film upon hitting a dead end for a solid story. As it turns out, his and the writing team's ideas didn't align with the game developers' vision. Multiple directors have joined and dropped out from the project since then, with WB locking in on Momoa to lead last year. WB's rights to Minecraft were set to expire in January 2023.

To be fair, it's tough to envision a story for Minecraft, which essentially is a free-willed type of game where creativity and item crafting is the priority. However, one could create a wholly original story, as seen with Telltale's Minecraft: Story Mode, simply using its universe as a device to capture a young warrior's perilous new adventure, after having slain the Ender Dragon.

That said, video game adaptations — save for select examples such as The Last of Us, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, and Arcane — have always received poor on-screen translations, be it for odd narrative choices or character motivations that stray too far from the source. Elsewhere, Mojang Studios is preparing to launch its upcoming Minecraft spinoff title Minecraft Legends on April 18 — a strategy game that has you form alliances and wage war against the Piglin mob.

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Warner Bros. also tweaked release dates for some other upcoming projects. First, the Momoa-starring DC live-action film Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom has been pushed forward by five days, now releasing on December 20 in theatres worldwide. In doing so, it's swapping places with the Colman Domingo-led (Euphoria) The Color Purple, a likely awards contender, that'll now drop on Christmas Day. Aquaman 2 is expected to offer more world-building in the submerged kingdom of Atlantis, with Willem Dafoe, Nicole Kidman, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, and Amber Heard reprising their roles. James Wan will return to direct the sequel, which might also feature a small appearance from Ben Affleck's Bruce Wayne.

Meanwhile, The Wizard of Oz animated film Toto has been removed from Warner Bros.' calendar, as the Robert De Niro-led (The Irishman) The Wise Guys steals its spot, now slated to release on February 2024. As per Deadline, an untitled DC Comics movie was taking up a slot on September 22, though it has now been scrubbed from the schedule.

The Jason Momoa-led Minecraft movie is now slated to release on April 4, 2025.

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Minecraft

KEY SPECS
NEWS

Genre Action-Adventure

Platform Android, Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Wii U, PlayStation 3 (PS3), PlayStation 4 (PS4), PlayStation Vita (PS Vita), Stadia, Xbox 360, Xbox One, iOS, iPadOS, tvOS, PC: Windows, PC: macOS, PC: Linux, Fire OS, Windows Phone

Modes Single-player, Multiplayer

Series Minecraft

PEGI Rating 7+

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Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom

Release Date 21 December 2023
Language English
Genre Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Superhero
Cast
Jason Momoa, Amber Heard, Patrick Wilson, Patrick Wilson, Dolph Lundgren, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Temuera Morrison, Randall Park, Vincent Regan
Director
James Wan
Producer
Peter Safran, James Wan

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