Jason Momoa simply revealed when A Minecraft Film 2 will start filming. The primary film was a large hit when it was launched in April 2025. Regardless of receiving a 48% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, A Minecraft Film went on to gross $958 million. Improvement on the sequel shortly bought underway, with a launch date set for July 2027.
Whereas selling his upcoming movie The Wrecking Crew on The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon, Momoa introduced that manufacturing on A Minecraft Film 2 will start in April. “The script is even higher,” he stated. “It is so good. I used to be laughing out loud. I have not laughed out loud in a really very long time in a script.”
Momoa, who performs Garrett Garrison (aka “The Rubbish Man”), admitted that he was “perplexed” by the script for the primary Minecraft movie, although he did not reveal why he felt that manner. Nonetheless, the script for A Minecraft Film 2 left him in hysterics.
“Very quickly. Dude! Bro, finish of April. They’re in it! The script is even higher. It is so good. I used to be laughing out loud. I have not laughed out loud in a really very long time at a script. I used to be perplexed on the primary script. This one, I am laughing out loud.”
A Minecraft Film relies on the favored online game, with the movie’s characters getting swept up right into a grand journey after touring to the cube-like universe generally known as the Overworld.
Momoa’s co-stars within the first Minecraft film included Jack Black (as Steve, the protagonist from the sport), Sebastian Hansen, Emma Myers, Danielle Brooks, Jennifer Coolidge, Rachel Home, Jemaine Clement, Jared Hess, Matt Berry, Hiram Garcia, Tommy Broadmore, and Frankie Creagh-Leslie.
Each Black and Myers received Favourite Film Actor and Favourite Butt-Kicker, respectively, on the Nickelodeon Children’ Alternative Awards. Momoa, the tune “I Really feel Alive,” and the film itself acquired nominations as nicely.
After incomes nearly $1 billion on the field workplace, A Minecraft Film landed at No. 5 on the worldwide listing of highest-grossing movies of 2025, behind Ne Zha 2, Zootopia 2, Avatar: Fireplace and Ash and Lilo & Sew, with Jurassic World Rebirth, Demon Slayer: Infinity Fort, Learn how to Practice Your Dragon, F1 and Superman rounding out the Prime 10.
In North America, the online game adaptation was the highest-grossing movie of the yr after incomes $424 million on the home field workplace.
A Minecraft Film director Jared Hess and co-screenwriter Chris Galletta are each on board for the sequel, which can be produced by Momoa, Mary Guardian, Cale Boyter, Roy Lee, Eric McLeod, Kaylee Walters, and Torfi Frans Ólafsson.
Momoa’s feedback on The Tonight Present affirm that he is returning for A Minecraft Film 2. Black and the opposite actors from the primary installment are broadly anticipated to affix him, although the official solid listing hasn’t been introduced but.
Whereas audiences look ahead to the sequel, they’ll watch Momoa in his subsequent movie, The Wrecking Crew, with co-star Dave Bautista. The comedy can be launched on Prime Video on January 28.
A Minecraft Film 2 arrives in theaters on Friday, July 23, 2027.