Well that will be worth anticipating
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It's a BLOCKBUSTER: Minecraft heads to the silver screen
The creators of smash gaming hit Minecraft have confirmed rumours that the blocktastic game will be turned into a film by Hollywood studio Warner Brothers. Warner Brothers have bought the rights to Minecraft and Roy Lee, director of the recent Lego Movie, is rumoured to be at the helm. The game has sold more than 35million …
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Friday 28th February 2014 12:42 GMT NumptyScrub
Re: Well that will be worth anticipating
Mortal Kombat, Resident Evil... some films based on games turn out ok (not superlative, mind, but at least ok) ;)
As long as it's not Uwe Boll directing it should at least be watchable, and the fact that it's a sandbox game means that if they hire a capable scriptwriter it could be pretty good.
Just don't let Boll anywhere near it *shudder*
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Friday 28th February 2014 13:31 GMT stucs201
Re: Well that will be worth anticipating
The lack of a pre-existing plot might be good for the movie (assuming they add a plot). However I'm less sure that having an associated plot would be good for the game, some people may then feel they have to play it a certain way (obviously they don't - but some people are easily influenced).
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Sunday 2nd March 2014 10:08 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Well that will be worth anticipating
"Punch trees, fall in lava, kill stuff. How is that not a traditional holy wood plot?"
You're missing the true plot: Minecraft founders, back in the mists of time awakened a great evil by opening the Pandora's box of Java. Evil plague of Java related malware threatens to overwhelm both cyber realm and real world. Hero defeats Java, world gets new Java free version of Minecraft on the back of the movie, world + dog celebrate the opportunity to finally eradicate the dark curse of Java.
What's not to like? And the sequels are already in planning: Evil plague (Flash) threatens to overwhelm world etc. When Flash has been defeated by HTML5, they can do another movie featuring Adobe Acrobat Reader. Hollywood could really save the world if each time they release new software free from the insecure garbageware.
By the time we get to Minecraft 4 then the plague will be Windows itself.
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Monday 3rd March 2014 17:27 GMT NumptyScrub
Re: Well that will be worth anticipating
quote: "You're missing the true plot: Minecraft founders, back in the mists of time awakened a great evil by opening the Pandora's box of Java.
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By the time we get to Minecraft 4 then the plague will be Windows itself."
Err, the fact it is written in Java lends it to being run as-is on Linux. So you might want to revise that sequence to put Windows first, perhaps, before you kill the only thing letting it run on an alternative OS? :P
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Monday 3rd March 2014 11:22 GMT TeeCee
Re: Can't be worse than the Battleship movie
The problem with saying that nothing could be worse than "Battleship" is that it overlooks the possibility that someone might be insane enough to allow M Night Shyamalan (with all his cod-psych knobs turned up to 11) to direct Will Smith, cast against type, in a masterpiece of bullshit, plot holes and contradictions of the egotistical superstar's own devising.
Proof that there really are things you just couldn't make up.......not that you'd want to......
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Friday 28th February 2014 12:32 GMT Bartholomew
money in same old .... out
I suspect that the one that was shutdown would have been better. Chop three zeroes off the budget and you need some really smart creative people to make things work. Add three zeroes and you will have the same old crap that Hollowood always produces because they can not afford to take risks.
At least now it is obvious why Notch shot the kickstarter project dead in utero.
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Friday 28th February 2014 13:05 GMT Bartholomew
Re: money in same old .... out
>>> And not, say, because they were trying to use his company's intellectual property without asking permission or signing a licence agreement.
Trademark, not intellectual property, no such thing as intellectual property in a court of law..
It can not be copyright, because that would be a script by notch. Although maybe copyright depending on the country the film was based in, there is software copyright in the US and a look and feel court case could be brought. Could have been a very interesting litigation.
It can not be a patent, as far as I know there is no patent for minecraft, if there was it may be related to ultrasound/CT/MRI scanners (voxel) and notch would need to be paying it.
Anyhow the KS film is dead - makes no odds now.
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Friday 28th February 2014 13:53 GMT NumptyScrub
Re: money in same old .... out
quote: "no such thing as intellectual property in a court of law.."
quote: "It can not be copyright, because that would be a script by notch."
Say what again? Copyright is wide ranging enough in scope to cover computer programs, including the representations therein; the exact example given is that Mickey Mouse the character is not copyrighted per se, but that the copyright on Steamboat Willie (the film) afford protections to the Mickey Mouse character. Minecraft the game is copyrighted, thus the characters and contents therein are also afforded some protections.
The guys intending to make a Minecraft movie (specifically as a "Minecraft" movie, note, not "Square Block Miner: Adventures in Cubeland") are indeed quite obviously intending to make a derivative product of a copyrighted work without holding the rights to do so. What they did do was show the major studios (i.e. Warner) that there is enough interest in a Minecraft movie to help them decide to seal a deal with Notch for the rights; simultaneously doing themselves out of any profit whilst allowing Warner to make yet more monies for old rope.
Moral of this story: if you have an idea to make monies using other people's IP, make damn sure you have negotiated the rights to do so before going public. If you don't, you'll get shot down and someone else will just take your idea and run with it themselves.
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Friday 28th February 2014 14:17 GMT Thomas 4
Re: @ Bye Bye Minecraft Videos ...
I'm guessing the theory is, once an official movie comes out, the studio that makes it would *possibly* be able to sue other minecraft films and shorts for infringement.
Don't know if that's actually true but it did float through my head as well. I hope it's wrong as there's some really good minecraft youtube videos. Slamacow springs to mind.
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Friday 28th February 2014 14:47 GMT Steven Davison
Re: @ Bye Bye Minecraft Videos ...
I'm guessing the theory is, once an official movie comes out, the studio that makes it would *possibly* be able to sue other minecraft films and shorts for infringement.
Don't know if that's actually true but it did float through my head as well. I hope it's wrong as there's some really good minecraft youtube videos. Slamacow springs to mind.
While possible, I'd like to beleive Notch has the nous to retain the rights on it, or to stipulate that fan made movies are allowed.
Additionally, they might have problems as as of ver 1.7.4, Minecraft has built in twitch streaming... .
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