Yes, there is going to be a live-action Minecraft movie, and Jason Momoa is headlining.

It’s been 13 years since the release of the first edition of Minecraft, which is the best-selling videogame of all time, but it took until now for there to be a movie set in the pixelated world of the game. The game was developed by Mojang Studios but bought by Microsoft for X-Box in 2014.

Wednesday, Warner Bros. released the first trailer for A Minecraft Movie, starring Momoa, Jack Black, Emma Myers, Danielle Brooks, Sebastian Eugene Hansen and Jennifer Coolidge, and it looks like a rag-tag group of misfits played themselves into the game, a la Jumanji. Momoa is sporting a frizzy blond wig and a fuzzy pink jacket.

Except they land in Minecraft‘s land of all things cubic. Here’s how Warner Bros. explains the story. “Four misfits — Garrett ‘The Garbage Man’ Garrison, Henry (Hansen), Natalie (Myers) and Dawn (Brooks) — find themselves struggling with ordinary problems when they are suddenly pulled through a mysterious portal into the Overworld: a bizarre, cubic wonderland that thrives on imagination. To get back home, they’ll have to master this world (and protect it from evil things like Piglins and Zombies too) while embarking on a magical quest with an unexpected, expert crafter, Steve (Black).”

Set to The Beatles’ trippy classic “Magical Mystery Tour,” we see Minecraft‘s trademark building blocks, blocky critters and monsters — and meet Black’s character, who introduces himself to the group simply as Steve, which impresses no one.

“This guy is such a toolbag,” Myers’ character Natalie says in the trailer.

Jared Hess (Napoleon Dynamite, Masterminds) directed the film, which was shot in New Zealand – so perhaps some of those stunning mountain vistas in the film are real. Chris Bowman and Hubbel Palmer wrote the screenplay.

You can see A Minecraft Movie in theaters on April 4th, 2025 – no mysterious portals required.