Following in the footsteps of the hit film The Lego Movie, Warner Bros. has acquired the rights to the popular video game Minecraft
The game's creator Markus ‘Notch’ Persson broke the news via Twitter on Thursday
Someone is trying leak the fact that we're working with Warner Brothers on a potential Minecraft Movie. I wanted to be the leak!
— Markus Persson (@notch) February 27, 2014
Lego Movie producer Roy Lee (with his company Vertigo Entertainment) has signed on to oversee the project, Deadline reports
No surprise there, considering the similarities of the two gamesMinecraft, which has sold more than 35 million copies since its beta release in 2009, is essentially a digital Lego set, allowing users to create avatars and build structures using various materials Read more...
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