Minecraft Movie?
Have you seen the Lego Movie yet? I don't want to spoil it, but it's pretty awesome. Warner Bros did LEGO proud, and now has its sights on giving Minecraft a similar movie makeover.
As of this writing, there are no hard dates for production (or release), and it seems that talks between Mojang and Warner Bros are ongoing.
Rumors abound on whether the movie will be animated, or live-action. According to film blog "Deadline Hollywood", Roy Lee (co-producer of the LEGO film) is set to produce Minecraft. Notch has said that Mojang will retain a significant level of creative control of the movie, something they are not willing to budge on. Who will star in it? What will the story be about? At the moment, no one knows!
Keep an ear to the ground - we might see a Minecraft movie before the end of the year.
So, the special effects will be worked on first while the content is trickled out over the next several years?
Good point, if it's done well that way then it should do good. But because it's really hard their probably going to animate it. Althought for me it would be fun for them to find a guy who looks like steve!
First off, I think you should go out there and actually BUY Minecraft, because you obviously spend way more time complaining on the forums than you do actually playing. There is more than enough in-game to turn into a story without adding your own thematic elements.
Second of all, You have not in fact made your point. Go to Youtube, watch the many, many, MANY, Minecraft animations. Many of which have plots (Albeit mostly in the form of shorts, but Egg's Guide to Minecraft and Dig Build Live have coherent plots, and the first doesn't introduce any new game mechanics, just a handful of thematic devices.)
Third, I think that you are either very irritated today, tired, or just a plain old grouch who needs to get a life, because if you had actually paid any attention to the sentence, it was meant as a friendly joke to say that I was not trying to criticize your point of view. But since it seems you are just trying to pick a fight, I'm just going to ignore you.
I made a post later back on how Minecraft should have its own movie. It got bad feedback with people saying "Thats a terrible idea! Adding a storyline to a game with NO storyline would be pointless!" and, "Thats stupid, Mojang would NEVER invest more than one million dollars on a project like this!!!!"
Some of the people commenting on this have even said things like that. I am disappointed. My thread gets terrible feedback but when they post it, people love it!(Yay! 400th post!)
I'm thinking the style of picture will be one of those 3D animation types, which seems kind obvious to me now.