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January 2, 2024

Jack Black Cast As Lead In Minecraft Movie

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This just in: Jack Black has been called forth to play all the video game characters that Chris Pratt isn’t playing. The long-in-development Minecraft movie has picked him up to play Steve, the lead character and one of two people you can be in the game (the other’s Alex, the girl). The casting comes hot off Black’s performance as Bowser in the Super Mario Bros Movie. As Bowser, Black delivered a passionate ballad of unrequited love for the princess he frequently kidnaps, called “Peaches.” As Steve, Black will perform the ditty…..uh, actually, what would Steve sing? What would Steve DO? Who even IS Steve? He’s got the blankest slate of any video game character I can think of, except for the yellow square in Atari’s 1978 game “Adventure.” I guess they’ll have to figure something out. The Minecraft movie does not have a reported writer, and I hope for their sake they aren’t seriously putting it off for the last minute. Everything else is set up to go. All the

June 29, 2017

A New Jumanji Movie Is Coming, But Not The One You Want

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You’ve noticed the recent rash of revivals of 80’s and 90’s properties originally targeted at kids. The ones who have failed the hardest are the ones that ignore the nostalgic appeal completely and go for broke trying to rope in a new generation of kids (for example, the recent Jem and Power Rangers movies). They wind up failing at that strategy, please no one, and fade away. Unfortunately it looks like we’ll be able to add Jumanji to this list in a few short months. The first full trailer for Sony’s Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle (yes, we get the song) is now out, and…..woof. Four annoying teenage stereotypes are sentenced to AV room cleanup duty as detention punishment. They find an old video game console with the word “JUMANJI” on it (inexplicably, Jumanji has turned into a video game). As soon as they select their characters and hit “START,” they’re zapped into the game and emerge in the jungle as Dwayne Johnson, Karen Gillian, Kevin Hart and Jack Black.