Writer Jason Fuchs will pen the latest draft of Warner Bros.’ upcoming adaptation of the popular video game “Minecraft.” After Rob McElhenney wrote a draft of the script following the departure of Shawn Levey, it apppears that he still needs some help working out the kinks. Warner Bros. purchased filming rights to the video game franchise in February 2014 from Swedish developer Mojang AB and hired Roy Lee and his Vertigo Entertainment production company to spearhead development alongside producer Jill Messick (“Mean Girls”). Later that year, Mojang sold Minecraft to Microsoft for an astounding $2.5 billion USD. It appears that deal will not effect what WB has planned for the film.
The video game pic is set to hit American theaters on May 25, 2019. It's Always Sunny co-creator and co-star Rob McElhenney is set to direct after Shawn Levy departed the project, citing creative differences. On his departure, Levy stated, "What happened simply is, Warners asked me to develop kind of how might this ever be a story for a movie, because it’s not a narrative game. We came up with an approach that felt good to us and I discussed it with Mojang, the game makers who make Minecraft, and they were like, that doesn’t sound like what we want if we’re gonna see a movie get made. We don’t know what we want, but that doesn’t feel right. And I said okay, well that feels like — that’s a movie I can envision."
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