Minecraft: Block Wars
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| Directed by | Freddie Goodwin |
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| Story by | Wilma Zimmerman |
| Based on | Squared Media by Minecraft |
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| Music by | C414 |
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| Distributed by | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures |
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Running time | 95 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $125 million |
| Box office | $1.62 billion |
Minecraft: Block Wars is a 2019 American adventure film based on the video game of the same name by Mojang Studios. Produced by Mob Productions, Mojang, and SOI Studios, and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, it is a sequel to Minecraft (2016) and was directed by Freddie Goodwin, from a screenplay written by Wilma Zimmerman, Benjamin Knowles, Homer Gutierrez and Myla Salazar. It is the first film in the Minecraft film series. It follows Steve and Alex as they battle in a war that is caused by Herobrine, Steve's biggest nemesis.
Plans for a Minecraft film adaption began in February 2014 when Markus Persson revealed that Mojang was in talks with Warner Bros. to develop the project. Several filmmakers, including Shawn Levy and Rob McElhenney, were initially hired to direct, with several writers, such as Kieran and Michele Mulroney, Jason Fuchs, and Aaron and Adam Nee, attached. However, in the end, they decided to attach Freddie Goodwin in charge of the project. Filming began in 2015 and concluded in January 2016.
Minecraft premiered worldwide on June 10, 2016, and was released to the Mob Productions YouTube channel on June 10, 2017, the year following. The film recieved positive reviews from critics, with praise for its animation, humor, writing, and musical score. The film made $1.62 billion in its time in cinemas. The success of the film created a franchise, with the film being followed by Minecraft: Block Wars, which was released on December 12, 2019.
Plot
Steve and Alex Stonecutter have been visiting places around the world looking to save villages and towns. They come across MonstaVillage, a village that has been under attack from heaps of Zombies, Skeletons, Creepers, and a Witch, who is controlling the mobs. They meet someone named Jack, who leads them into the right direction and explains to them that the village is being attacked for its honey blocks, and the mobs are being controlled by a Witch.
In a alley way, it's revealed that Derp is back, and in a flashback, it's revealed that real angels brought Derp back. Afterwards, in the real world, Derp has been given a job at the Good Justice Society company (this is confirmed in Agent Derp, and he gets given a mission on a evil organisation that are planning to unleash many nukes upon the world, and is ruled by someone named Jack.
Steve and Alex prepare the village for future invasions, setting them up with traps, weapons, and recourses. They build machines underground, they set up defense forces, and train the people there to help protect it. Afterwards, Steve is contacted by Derp's phone number, convincing Steve that Derp is alive, but Alex shows caution, but follows to see if it is him.
At the Good Justice Society, Steve and Alex find Derp, and meet up with him again, and decide to help him with his mission that was given to him, and they begin to plan a way to defeat Jack. While, the team work, Derp experiences some issues with some sort of Powers. They successfully find out how Derp can use them and they attack Jack's cult, and stop the nukes from being sent. Jack however escapes.
Steve, Alex, and Derp all return to MonstaVillage. Where Jack has abandoned, and Witch returns to attack, the people of the town force Witch to flee, and Steve, Alex, and Derp locate her hut and beat her. Alex killing Witch.
Afterwards, the group splits paths and Derp goes back to the Good Justice Society and Steve and Alex continue their mission.
Cast
- Jack Black as Steve Stonecutter
- Amy Poehler as Alex Stonecutter
- Scott Menville Derp
- Max Huang as Jackstar
- Unknown as Jerry
- James Earl Jones as Herobrine
- Matt Doherty as Entity 303
Other voices include Dylan Buccieri, Assaf Cohen, Jessica DiCicco, Terri Douglas, Karen Huie, Arif S. Kinchen, Austin Madison, Cole Massie, Alisha Mullally, Fred Tatasciore, Kari Wahlgren, and Secunda Wood in undisclosed roles.