News culture “I drink and I eat Minecraft”, this super-known actor is preparing for his next film and it’s not kidding

Culture news “I drink and eat Minecraft”, this super famous actor is preparing for his next film and it’s not kidding

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He takes his role very seriously

Even if we didn’t have to wait for the success of the Super Mario film to get there, it must be admitted that the latter must have given some ideas to producers lacking money. If you ever wanted to see the cubic world of Minecraft on the big screen, you will soon be able to do so since a film adapted from the universe created by Markus “Notch” Persson is currently in production. Designed for a released in 2025we don’t yet know much about the latter other than that it will be a Animation Film, that the creator of the game will participate in writing the scenario and that the casting has already been chosen. Among the actors who will lend their voices to adapt Minecraft for the cinema, we find some extremely famous faces like Jason Momoa (Aquaman), Danielle Brooks (Orange is the New Black), Emma Myers (Wednesday), Jennifer Coolidge (The White Lotus), Kate McKinnon (barbie), Jemaine Clement (What We Do in the Shadows) and the iconic Jack Black (Tenacious D and the Pick of Destiny).

An actor has to prepare, so I’ve been drinking and eating Minecraft for a month and a half. I’m going to star in a little film called Minecraft… I don’t want to brag but it’s a bit classy. I put myself in Steve’s shoes in the world of Minecraft, I’m getting back into it because I had already played it a few years ago since my children loved the game and I wanted to speak the same language as Steve. them. So I revised well, I learned and I started to really enjoy it. I was building houses and digging everywhere, and now I’m doing it again and it’s great.

In full promotion for Kung Fu Panda 4, Jack Black had the opportunity to point out that he was far from being new to the world of Minecraft. Very happy to have been selected to participate in this project, he confided to our colleagues at IGN that he had already played the video game in the past and thathe was currently actively getting back into it to prepare for his role. Nothing really surprising for anyone who knows the American actor a little, the latter having already proven on numerous occasions that he was capable of being as passionate as he is hilarious.

The return of this comedy star

While we haven’t seen or heard him much on screen for some time (at least not as much as a few years ago), Jack Black seems to be coming back with a bang to regain some popularity. As we told you a little above, he is currently in full promotion of the fourth opus of the saga Kung Fu Panda for which he has played the main role since the beginning. For many, however, the actor became known for his roles in the 2000s and 2010s as Professor Dewey Finn in Rock Academyhis own role in Tenacious D and the Pick of Destiny or that of Lemuel Gulliver in Gulliver’s Travels.

Since the late 2010s however, Jack Black seemed to appear a little less on screen outside of Kung Fu Panda and the newer films. Jumanji. But if you like this true comedy star, you may be satisfied since the American actor is currently returning to the forefront. In addition to his role as Bowser in the film Super Mario Bros. and that which he will occupy in Minecraft in 2025, Jack Black will also lend his voice to Claptrap in the film adaptation of Borderlands in 2024. And if you prefer him as a musician than as an actor, know that he recently released a cover of …Baby One More Time by Britney Spears on the occasion of her return in Kung Fu Panda. We let you discover this thanks to the video above, the fans are not likely to be disappointed.