A synthesis of computer games and movies was announced this week by Minecraft creator
Markus Persson, who revealed this week
via Twitter that the game's maker was talking to Warner Brothers about a movie project. Persson tweeted: "Someone is trying leak the fact that we're working with Warner Brothers on a potential Minecraft Movie. I wanted to be the leak!"
Persson made the announcement earlier than he wanted to because of various rumors that were circulating, the
BBC notes, including on that movie news site
Deadline reported the one of the producers of the recent Lego Movie is handling the project.
Minecraft was launched in 2009 for PC and is now available on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Some 100million gamers have registered on its official website, making the company $240 million in revenue in 2012. According to
The Independent, the game allows users to build with pixelated blocks using a range of materials onto an online landscape.
The creative and building aspects of Minecraft allow players to build constructions out of textured cubes in a 3D generated world. Other activities in the game include exploration, gathering resources, crafting, and combat. Gameplay in its commercial release has two principal modes: survival, which requires players to acquire resources and maintain their health and hunger; and creative, where players have an unlimited supply of resources, the ability to fly, and no health or hunger.
The movie is expected to be live action, rather than animated.
