Fans are worried about the live-action Minecraft adaptation as the first poster and trailer leave a lot to be desired.

In the gaming world, no one is more popular than Minecraft so it was inevitable that the game would get a movie adaptation somewhere down the line. As expected, the live-action adaptation of the wildly popular game will be released on April 4, 2025. The cast of the film is star-studded as it includes Jason Momoa, Jack Black and Steve Carell, to name a few.

But after seeing the official poster and trailer of the film, fans are not even a bit excited instead of finding various skepticism already. They were expecting an animated adaptation, not a live-action movie. This has led them to draw various comparisons to the recent video game adaptation Borderlands which also did not fare well.

The world of Minecraft is defined by its creative freedom and the blocky aesthetic it offers. Players have all the freedom to explore their creative freedom by building and exploring the limitless worlds in a sandbox environment. Naturally, translating such a unique and vast world into a live-action film is a difficult task even with a huge amount of budget and talent.