Following the exit of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’s Rob McElhenney last August, Warner Bros. Pictures has now found a new director for its long-planned Minecraft movie in Peter Sollett (Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist).
Variety reports that Sollett has signed on to write and direct the video game adaptation, which follows “a teenage girl and her unlikely group of adventurers who, after the malevolent Ender Dragon sets out on a path of destruction, must save their beautiful, blocky Overworld.”
Warner Bros. first secured the rights to the property from developer Mojang back in 2014, with both Shawn Levy (Night at the Museum) and McElhenney occupying the director’s chair before exiting due to scheduling issues.
The studio has high franchise hopes for Minecraft, and with good reason seeing as the video game has become a global phenomenon, shifting over 154 million copies worldwide – second only to Tetris in terms of the biggest selling video games of all time.
