{"id":23923,"date":"2024-05-30T16:05:43","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T20:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=23923"},"modified":"2024-05-30T16:05:43","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T20:05:43","slug":"netflix-mojang-to-make-animated-tv-series-about-minecraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=23923","title":{"rendered":"Netflix, Mojang To Make Animated TV Series About &#8216;Minecraft&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"p1\">@Courtesy of Mojang Studio\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>Netflix is joining with game studio Mojang in collaborating on an animated series for television inspired by the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Minecraft\"><em><strong>Minecraft<\/strong> <\/em><\/a>franchise. News about the project was released this week as part of the anniversary festivities for the Minecraft sandbox game, which has become the best-selling video game of all time, having sold more than 230 million copies.<br \/><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0381478\/\">Jared Hess<\/a>, who created <em><strong>Napoleon Dynamite<\/strong><\/em>, just finished directing a live-action <em><strong>Minecraft<\/strong> <\/em>film, which recently completed production in New Zealand. The cast for the film, which debuts in April of 2025, includes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0597388\/\">Jason Momoa<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0085312\/\">Jack Black<\/a>, Danielle Brooks, Sebastian Euge Hansen, Memma Myers, Jennifer Coolidge, Kate McKinnon, and Jemaine Clement.<br \/><br \/>According to press reports, the upcoming <em><strong>Minecraft<\/strong> <\/em>series \u201cwill feature an original story with new characters that shows the Minecraft world in a new light.\u201d Visuals will be provided by the WildBrain animation studio, which recently created a number of projects for Netflix, including <em><strong>Sonic Prime, Ninjago: Dragons Rising, Slugterra<\/strong><\/em>, and <em><strong>Carmen Sand.<\/strong><\/em><br \/><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1153895\/\">Jon Berg<\/a>, who produced the upcoming <em><strong>Minecraft<\/strong> <\/em>movie, indicated the upcoming series would stay true to the essence of the popular game that inspired it. He was quoted by <a href=\"https:\/\/screenrant.com\/minecraft-movie-update-game-accurate-confusing\/\"><em>Screen Rant<\/em> <\/a>as saying: \u201cThat&#8217;s going to be an amazing movie, that&#8217;s going to be an amazing movie. We have all the resources. It&#8217;s a big Warner Brothers spectacular. We&#8217;ve got Jason Momoa and Jack Black in it. I think it&#8217;s going to inspire people. Minecraft&#8217;s such a cool game. My kids played it; I played it, it&#8217;s going to be true to the game. And Jared Hess directing is going to do an awesome job.\u201d<br \/><br \/>Netflix is also making animated adaptations of other materials in its franchise, including <em><strong>Devil May Cry, Lara Croft<\/strong><\/em>, and <em><strong>Terminator<\/strong><\/em>. An anime adaptation of Grimm\u2019s fairy tales, titled <em><strong>Grimm: Variations<\/strong><\/em>, was recently released.<br \/><br \/>Details about the plot of the new <em><strong>Minecraft<\/strong> <\/em>film are being kept strictly confidential. <br \/><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/author\/edward-moran\/\">Check out more of Edward\u2019s articles.\u00a0<\/a><br \/><br \/><br \/><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>@Courtesy of Mojang Studio\u00a0 Netflix is joining with game studio Mojang in collaborating on an animated series for television inspired by the Minecraft franchise. News about the project was released this week as part of the anniversary festivities for the Minecraft sandbox game, which has become the best-selling video game of all time, having sold&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":23955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[340,22383,2900,20771,22384,22382,92,22385],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Netflix, Mojang To Release &#039;Minecraft Animated Series for TV<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Netflix is joining with game studio Mojang in collaborating on an animated series for television inspired by the Minecraft franchise.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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