{"id":38101,"date":"2018-08-05T05:45:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-05T05:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/08\/minecraft_movie_delayed_after_director_leaves_project"},"modified":"2018-08-05T05:45:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-05T05:45:00","slug":"minecraft-movie-delayed-after-director-leaves-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/08\/05\/minecraft-movie-delayed-after-director-leaves-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Minecraft Movie Delayed After Director Leaves Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/08\/minecraft_movie_delayed_after_director_leaves_project\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/08\/minecraft_movie_delayed_after_director_leaves_project\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Minecraft Image.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/08\/minecraft_movie_delayed_after_director_leaves_project\/attachment\/0\/original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/08\/minecraft_movie_delayed_after_director_leaves_project\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"Minecraft Image.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Troubled production cycles for movies based on popular video game franchises is seemingly ongoing. Minecraft: The Movie is now the latest one with problems, following Warner Bros. acquisition of Detective Pikachu.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The film originally revealed by the game&#8217;s creator Notch in 2014, when he posted about Mojang&#8217;s partnership with Warner Bros., is no longer scheduled to arrive in cinemas May 2019. The latest <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/minecraft-nee-brothers-rob-mcelhenny-release-date\/\">reports<\/a> are the director and co-writer, Rob McElhenny, has walked away from the project.<\/p>\n<p>Aaron and Adam Nee have now been brought in to direct the film and will also rewrite the script. This is purportedly the third director swap since the project&#8217;s beginning. The original one left over &#8220;creative differences&#8221; with Warner Bros.<\/p>\n<p><em>Did you know a Minecraft movie was in production? Would you be interested in watching if it ever gets released? Are you a fan of video game movie adaptations? Tell us below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Troubled production cycles for movies based on popular video game franchises is seemingly ongoing. Minecraft: The Movie is now the latest one with problems, following Warner Bros. acquisition of Detective Pikachu.\u00a0 The film originally revealed by the game&#8217;s creator Notch in 2014, when he posted about Mojang&#8217;s partnership with Warner Bros., is no longer scheduled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}