Jason Momoa In Early Talks To Star In ‘Minecraft’; Jared Hess Directing Video Game Adaptation For Warner Bros.
deadline.comJason Momoa (Dune) is in early talks to star in a live-action Minecraft film in the works at Warner Bros., sources tell Deadline.Minecraft is a first-person survival game developed and published by Mojang Studios, which spans multiple platforms.
The first installment in the franchise debuted in November of 2011, with the latest, Minecraft Dungeons, being unveiled in May of 2020.
While specifics as to the long-gestating film’s plot have thus far been kept under wraps, Jared Hess (Napoleon Dynamite) is now set to direct from a script by Chris Bowman & Hubbell Palmer (Masterminds).Mary Parent, Roy Lee and the late Jill Messick will produce alongside Mojang’s Lydia Winters and Vu Bui, with Jon Berg, Cale Boyter and Jon Spaihts serving as exec producers.Momoa stars in Apple TV+’s See and has also recently been seen in Denis Villeneuve’s Dune, as well as HBO Max’s Peacemaker.
The actor is otherwise best known for roles in Warner Bros.’ Aquaman franchise and HBO’s Game of Thrones, and has also appeared on such series as Frontier, The Red Road and Stargate: Atlantis.
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