Production of Minecraft One and Minecraft Two
| Avengers: Infinity War Avengers: Endgame | |
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| Directed by | Freddie Goodwin |
| Screenplay by | Christopher Markus Stephen McFeely |
| Based on | Minecraft by Mojang |
| Produced by | Kevin Feige |
| Cinematography | Jackson Greene |
| Music by | Alan Silvestri |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures |
Release dates | April 27, 2018 (Infinity War) April 26, 2019 (Endgame) |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $681–800 million |
Minecraft One and Minecraft Two are American animated fantasy adventure films based on the video game of the same name, produced by Mojang and Mob Productions and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. They serve as the reboot of the Minecraft film franchise and are both the fifth and sixth films in the franchise. Both films were directed by Freddie Goodwin and written by various writers including Goodwin, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, and Emily V. Gordon. The two films feature similar cast members with heavy focus on Steve Stonecutter and Alex Stonecutter voiced by Jack Black and Amy Poehler, respectively. In One, Steve Stonecutter encounters his evil duplicate — Herobrine — and must stop him with the help of his friends. In Two, Steve, Alex, and their friends embark on a quest to thwart Herobrine's plan to dominate the Overworld, facing challenges and uncovering his origins with allies Sam and Shane's support.
Development of One and Two began with Mob Productions' early films, which introduced the audiance to the world of Minecraft and introducing the villain Herobrine. Mob Productions told Goodwin to use Herobrine as a "major plot point" throughout the two films.
Minecraft One was released on August 17, 2035 and Minecraft Two was released on June 10, 2042.
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Throughout the first films in 2016 and 2019, Freddie Goodwin knew he could build upon the first two films and create something "extremely special". The team wanted to adapt multiple storylines from Squared Media in both films but felt it would make more sense to include more material related easter eggs and connections to be made in the first film only.
Throughout their early films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), Marvel Studios began preparing for an adaptation of Jim Starlin's 1991 "The Infinity Gauntlet" comic by introducing the Infinity Stones as MacGuffins: the Space Stone as the Tesseract in Captain America: The First Avenger (2011); the Mind Stone inside Loki's scepter in The Avengers (2012); the Reality Stone as the Aether in Thor: The Dark World (2013); the Power Stone within the Orb in Guardians of the Galaxy (2014); and the Time Stone within the Eye of Agamotto in Doctor Strange (2016). According to James Gunn, writer and director of the Guardians of the Galaxy films, Marvel decided that the Aether and previous MacGuffins would be used as Infinity Stones during production on The Dark World (these MacGuffins and the Infinity Stones are separate objects in the comic books). Before that decision was made, the Orb was intended to be presented as having red energy in the first Guardians film and had to be changed to purple in post-production to give each of the Infinity Stones its own color, since the Aether was also red. Gunn did not know the importance of the Stones to the wider MCU when he created their backstory, without much thinking, for the Guardians of the Galaxy scene where Taneleer Tivan / The Collector explains the origins of the Stones.