Minecraft movie: Actor Jack Black will play Steve
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Actor Jack Black has revealed he will be playing a character in the new Minecraft movie.
Jack - who voiced Bowser in the The Super Mario Bros Movie - announced that he will be playing Steve in the new movie.
Steve is one of the original characters you could play as in the game Minecraft when it was released in 2009, alongside a female character named Alex. Game makers Mojang later added more characters: Ari, Efe, Kai, Makena, Noor, Sunny, and Zuri.
The film is being made by Warner Bros and Mojang, and a release date has been set for April 4, 2025 - but this could change.
Who else is in the Minecraft movie?
Jack Black will be joined by fellow actor Jason Mamoa - who you might recognise as Aquaman from the DC superhero movies.
They will also be joined by Emma Myers, and Danielle Brooks - who will be playing Dawn - and Sebastian Eugene Hansen - who will be playing Henry.
The movie will be directed by Jared Hess - who worked with Jack Black in one of his previous movies Nacho Libre.
Did you know?
Minecraft is one of the best selling video games of all time, with 300 million copies sold and nearly 140 million people playing it each month.
Over the last ten years, a variety of directors such as Shawn Levy (who directed Night at the Museum) and Rob McElhenney (who co-owns Wrexham United) were signed up to work on the movie, but it didn't work out.
Filming is set to start "imminently" on the movie, but no details of the official plot have been revealed just yet.
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