Did you, like Steve, yearn for the mines as a child? Did Jared Hess' brick-based blockbuster A Minecraft Movie merely feed rather than fill your hunger for more? Well then boy, Minecrafters, do we have some great (albeit entirely unsurprising) news for you. This evening, Minecraft's official social channels have confirmed that A Minecraft Movie 2 — or A Minecraft Movie: A Sequel, perhaps — is officially hip, happening, and heading to a cinema near you on 23 July, 2027. Check out the official announcement post below;
'Building terrain. See you in theaters July 23, 2027. #Minecraft." A couple of fistfuls of words, a pair of pixelated pick-axes, and a faint purple glow that'll have players of Mojang's smash-hit game thinking of The End? Sure, it ain't much, but after the first Minecraft movie nearly hit a billion dollars at the global box office, bringing *checks notes* 'Chicken Jockey' into the wider pop cultural lexicon (and the nightmares of poor cinema workers the world over), it's enough to make it known that Warner Bros. is coming for the 2027 summer box office — even if that means dropping its game-based blockbuster sequel on the exact same day Disney's long, long awaited The Simpsons Movie sequel hits cinemas.
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Jared Hess is heading back to the mines to direct A Minecraft Movie's follow-up, working from a screenplay by himself and Chris Galletta that's presumably locked deep, deep underground in a sub-bedrock chest. Whether or not the first movie's stars — Jack Black, Jason Momoa, Emma Myers, and co — will be back too for more adventures in the other MCU very much remains to be seen. Until we hear more then, we're off to try and figure out a cool Barbenheimer name for our inevitable Simpsons/Minecraft double header. Simpcraft, anyone? Minesons? This ain't so easy, y'know…