"Minecraft" is the latest video game to get a film adaptation thank to Warner Bros.
According to Deadline, the studio acquired the rights to make the popular title into a major motion picture. Vertigo Entertainment production run by Roy Lee is also set to produce the film. Minecraft, the video game, has reportedly reached more than 100 million users.
"Minecraft is one of the top five open world-type games, in which players can engage in a virtual world, creating any environment they can dream up with virtual blocks," Deadline reports. "It often is described as a 'open sandbox' where the users can build anything they want. Minecraft has become an Internet sensation since its introduction in 2011."
Warner Bros. could be tapping into a gold mine considering the success of the mega box-office hit "The Lego Movie." Critics and audiences alike thoroughly enjoyed the film, and has grossed more than $180 million world-wide. The Chicago Tribune gave the film a four-star rating.
"Finally! A comedy that works. An animated film with a look - a kinetic aesthetic honoring its product line's bright, bricklike origins - that isn't like every other clinically rounded and bland digital 3-D effort," the Tribune wrote. "A movie that works for the Lego-indebted parent as well as the Lego-crazed offspring. A movie that, in its brilliantly crammed first half especially, will work even if you don't give a rip about Legos."
For those who are unfamiliar with the film, check out Rotton Tomatoes film's synapsis and trailer below.
"The LEGO (R) Movie" is the first-ever, full-length theatrical LEGO (R) adventure. The original 3D computer animated story follows Emmet (Chris Pratt) an ordinary, rules- following, perfectly average LEGO minifigure who is mistakenly identified as the most extraordinary person and the key to saving the world. He is drafted into a fellowship of strangers on an epic quest to stop an evil tyrant, a journey for which Emmet is hopelessly and hilariously underprepared. (c) Warner Bros."
