Images showing Jack Black as Minecraft character Steve have leaked online, giving the internet an early look at how the upcoming Warner Bros-backed Minecraft movie plans to stylise Mojang’s blocky world.
The designs, which reportedly first surfaced via notorious webforum 4chan, are now being pulled from social media platform X by copyright claims, Eurogamer has noticed. The takedowns all but confirm the images’ legitimacy.
Photos show a bearded Jack Black wearing Steve’s trademark blue shirt and jeans, holding a blocky pickaxe. Other images show a mossy-looking Creeper, cuboid bee and a rather cross-eyed pink sheep.
The images are accompanied by text identifying them as coming from a “packaging guide” document, put together by Mojang to provide advice for prospective marketing partners.
This text also gives us a brief synopsis of the Minecraft film’s plot, which will apparently see Jack Black’s Steve captured by an evil entity known as Malgosha, and then needing to be rescued by “four fresh visitors” to the Minecraft world.