With more than 300 million copies sold since its launch in 2009, Minecraft It is considered The best -selling video game in historyfollowed very far by Grand Theft Auto V and Tetris. In this way, the expectations generated by the announcement that the video game would be taken to the cinema are completely justified.
He also explains why this Mojang Studio product became the highest grossing film so far this year, when it was barely launched in April. And he went to Collect more than 950 million dollars in movie theatersalthough not always a successful game runs with the same fate when it becomes a film.
And now to streaming platforms
It must be said that A Minecraft movie, It was not accompanied by the best forecastsas it is not an animation film and having real actors who had not gone well in recent years, Jack Black and Jason Momoa. In this sense, it must be considered that it was a project, to take it to the cinema, almost as old as the game.
But Fortune accompanied this movie Directed by Jared HESS and with a script written by Chris Bowman and Hubbel Palmer, in every way.
At its premiere, on Friday, April 4, exceeded widely at the box office to any other movie based on a video gameeven Super Mario Bros: The movie, when raising 57 million dollars (including 10 million that raised in the preview, on Thursday).
This extraordinary success, which places A Minecraft movie Among one of the highest grossing video game films of all time, it will surely be replicated now that it reaches the Warner Bros streaming platform, on the channel previously known as HBO Maxas of June 20.
What is told in a Minecraft movie
It should not have been easy to adapt a story to this extraordinary game, in which players interact with the different components of the game to create worlds and where There does not seem to be a defined storyas in other video games.
They are basically five real characters that are dragged To a virtual world, Overworld, at different times, because the character embodied by Jack Black is already in the world of Minecraft when the other rooms arrive.
The official synopsis tells this: “In the world of Minecraft, Creativity is essential for survival. It is here where four maladaptive (Garret “El Basurero” Garrison, Henry, Nathalie and Dawn) land, being dragged through a mysterious portal while they were fighting their problems in the real world. “
Garrison is played by Jason Momoa, Henry by Sebastián Eugene Hansen, Nathalie by Emma Myers and Dawn by Danielle Brooks. The synopsis continues: “To return to their home, they must master this world, embarking on a magical search that will involve an unexpected craftsman named Steve,” naturally Jack Black personified.
Why is a Minecraft movie so successful
There is something in this story, told in this way, that evokes cinema classics as The Oz Wizardwith the unforgettable Judy Garland, but also other search and self -discovery stories such as those we can find in books taken to the cinema, such as The endless story either The Lord of the Rings.
However, for critics, the success of this film is based mainly on the fact that became a family experiencewhich involved children and adults, and has also caused a rage, and to even some lack of control among adolescents. In any case, as of June 20 we can relive this experience, if we already saw it in movie theaters, in The rooms of our homes.
