A Minecraft Movie Latest Trailer Reveals Steve's Origin Story

The latest trailer for A Minecraft Movie is here, taking a different approach from that first trailer and focusing on the origins of the famous Minecraft Steve.

The trailer, which you can watch below, shows a young Steve who always "yearned for mines, but something always got in the way." We then see the adult Steve, played by Jack Black, as he eventually digs through the mines and discovers "a wonderland where anything is possible... as long as what you imagine can be built of out blocks."

We also get quick glimpses at the rest of the cast, including Sebastian Eugene Hansen as the young Henry, Jason Momoa as Garrett "The Garbage Man" Garrison, Danielle Brooks as Dawn, and Emma Myers as Natalie. We also get a much better look at how the film will be approaching the Overworld here, as well as plenty of creatures and items that'll be recognizable to Minecraft players (including some fun bits involving an Ender Pearl and skeletons at the end of the trailer).

Jared Hess, known for comedies like Napoleon Dynamite and Nacho Libre, directed the video game adaptation, which hits theaters on April 4, 2025.

This is only our latest look at A Minecraft Movie, with the first teaser having debuted back in September. The reaction to that trailer, however, was divisive, to put it mildly. Many fans criticized it for its unnervingly realistic art style, as well as for the decision to portray Minecraft in live-action at all. One fan remade the trailer in animation, which was widely well-received.

Hess and producer Torfi Frans Olafsson spoke candidly with IGN about the response to that trailer in a recent interview (which you can read in full here), with Hess saying that they were "ready for everything."

“I mean, look, we knew this game represents so many different things to so many different people,” Hess said. “We knew that whatever we led out with, there was going to be strong opinions across the spectrum of what people were expecting, what they wanted it to be. Everybody brings their own special personal connection to the game."

For more in the meantime, check out our analysis of why it seems like Black is in every video game movie these days, as well as our breakdown of every upcoming video game movie and TV show.

Alex Stedman is a Senior News Editor with IGN, overseeing entertainment reporting. When she's not writing or editing, you can find her reading fantasy novels or playing Dungeons & Dragons.