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EXCLUSIVE: Kirsten Dunst (Roofman) has joined nan formed of nan untitled Minecraft Movie sequel from Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary.
Character specifications are nether wraps. Dunst joins a formed that includes nan returning Jason Momoa, Jack Black, Danielle Brooks, Matt Berry, and Jennifer Coolidge.
The Minecraft movies are based connected nan celebrated video franchise from Mojang Studios. While nan sequel’s crippled is being kept heavy successful nan mine, nan first movie introduced viewers to 4 misfits — Garrett “The Garbage Man” Garrison (Momoa), Henry (Sebastian Hansen), Natalie (Emma Myers) and Dawn (Brooks) — who find themselves struggling pinch mean problems erstwhile they are abruptly pulled done a mysterious portal into nan Overworld: a bizarre, cubic wonderland that thrives connected imagination.
To get backmost home, they must maestro this world (and protect it from evil things for illustration Piglins and Zombies, too) while embarking connected a magical quest pinch an unexpected, master crafter, Steve (Black). Their escapade challenges each 5 to beryllium bold and to reconnect pinch nan qualities that make each of them uniquely creative…the very skills they request to thrive backmost successful nan existent world.
A taste phenomenon, A Minecraft Movie was 1 of nan biggest films of past year, notching a grounds $163 cardinal home opening — nan biggest ever for a video crippled adjustment — and reaching astir $1 cardinal worldwide.
Jared Hess is returning to nonstop nan sequel from a book written pinch Chris Galletta. Producers see Mary Parent, Cale Boyter, Roy Lee, Eric McLeod, Kayleen Walters, Torfi Frans Ólafsson, Momoa, and nan precocious Jill Messick. Exec producers are Jay Ashenfelter, Jen Conroy, Brian Mendoza, Jon Berg, and Jonathan Spaihts. Warner Bros. will merchandise nan movie connected July 23, 2027.
Coming disconnected a starring domiciled other Channing Tatum successful Roofman, Derek Cianfrance’s critically acclaimed true-crime dramedy for Paramount, Dunst’s different caller credits see Alex Garland’s A24 pic Civil War, arsenic good arsenic Jane Campion’s Netflix Western The Power of nan Dog, for which she landed her first Academy Award nomination, successful nan class of Best Supporting Actress.
Other upcoming projects for nan character see Ruben Östlund’s The Entertainment System Is Down, Alejandro Landes Echavarría’s Reptilia with Mikey Madison, arsenic good arsenic Flora Birnbaum’s debut characteristic Self Help, produced by Jessica Elbaum and Will Ferrell. She is repped by Entertainment 360, UTA, and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller.
