A Minecraft Movie Director Explains Why It's Live-Action, As New Clip Premieres
A film based on Minecraft has been in various stages of development for more than a decade, but it's finally happening and now set for release in 2025. The film is live-action, and many wondered why the filmmakers chose to go that route instead of making it animated like The Super Mario Bros. Movie. Torfi Frans Olafsson, the creative director for entertainment at Minecraft studio Mojang, explained the decision to use live-action during Minecraft Live recently.
"We thought a lot about what kind of movie to do, and we chose live-action because it's not something that's been seen before on this scale," Olafsson said.
Director Jared Hess, meanwhile, said, "This is a chance for us, doing a film, to do something different." Hess mentioned how the dedicated and creative Miencraft fan community already came up with tons of stories and short films based on Minecraft using an animated format.
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