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Minecraft: The Beginnings is a 2025 American science fiction action film directed by Rian Johnson and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and Johnson from a screenplay and story by Colin Trevorrow and J.J. Abrams based on the Minecraft video game. The first installment in the Minecraft Dimensions film series, it stars Sasha Calle, Kiernan Shipka, Nicholas Hoult, Chris Hemsworth, Daniel Kaluuya, Brad Garrett, Russell Crowe, and Oscar Isaac. The film follows a young girl who catches a glimpse of another world by looking through an Eye of Ender, only for one of the spawns from the strange world, known as Endermen, to quickly discover her. Against the wishes of the evil Ender Dragon, another spawn from the dimension enters the overworld to keep the girl safe from the Enderman that spotted her. Minecraft: The Beginnings was released in theaters on February 8th, 2025; the film was highly praised for its visual effects, direction, action sequences, story, and acting performances. It was also a sleeper hit, grossing $178 worldwide, attaining a strong cult following. Calle's performance received universal acclaim, earning her a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. A sequel is in development along with a spin-off/prequel focusing on a younger version of Calle's character.
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  • misterwolf @nickienicks @castingsinmyblood @otsutsuki @xxx_fallengalaxyxxx @samanthaharmon @thepinkmenace and @robertcooper My first adaptation to my FAVORITE game in the world! This took me 3 days to finish up, so I was able to come up with a Minecraft-esk plotline. Enjoy!

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  • misterwolf Plot: Alex Stonecutter is a rich young miner who works with her older brother Steve to help him earn the respect of their colleagues. One day, while mining for diamonds, Alex discovers a strange artifact called an Eye of Ender; when she looks through it, she finds another world filled with mysterious life forms, all extremely thin, tall, and dark with purple eyes that glow. One of the spawns spot her and it screams, causing her to go unconscious.

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  • misterwolf Another spawn from the same dimension, Raven Skørungr, is ordered to hunt down Alex and kill her. However, she secretly defies those orders and destroys the tabs her master kept on her inside her ship, before telporting it and herself to the overworld. The ship crashes in a beach near the mine that Alex works inside of, and Raven is found unconscious by a recovered Alex, who takes Raven to her log cabin and treats her wounds. Awakening one day later, Raven finds Alex sitting on the porch, and greets her warmly.

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  • misterwolf When Alex asks Raven what has brought her to the overworld, she tells the truth, saying that she was ordered to kill her, but instead betrayed her superiors and chose to protect her instead, as she knows that Alex did not do anything wrong.

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  • misterwolf When Steve demonstrates a distrustful behavior towards Raven, they both clash, and Alex sides with Raven due to being under her protection and partly because she is right. Meanwhile, the spawn who discovered Alex (and later the one who ordered Raven to kill her), revealed to be one of the Endermen, is sent to the overworld when Raven is declared missing. As weeks go by, Raven and Alex bond further, even later becoming the closest of friends; after she aids Alex in helping Steve earn his colleagues' respect, he realizes that Raven is trustworthy, and apologizes to her.

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  • misterwolf Upon waking up in the night from the sound of terror, Raven spots Alex being attacked by skeletons and creepers, and she saves her by shooting fire arrows at the monsters. After tending to her wounds, Raven says to Alex "Now we're even"; she also reveals that she has harbored feelings for her, and Alex returns those feelings before kissing Raven and allowing her to stay in the overworld. The Enderman arrives and attacks Raven, having deduced that she has defied both her orders and her dimension's love laws. He then severely injures her, kidnaps Alex, and sets their cabin ablaze. Steve and his fellow miner Gabriel find Raven unconscious and take her to a witch's hut. They kill the witch living in it and use her brewing recipe to craft a healing potion, which is then drunk by Raven.

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  • misterwolf Raven is about to open the chest she took with her during her escape from her dimension, when the god Notch appears in her head. He gives her a vision of her childhood, which is the final memory of her father, Aurelius, when he was alive; within the vision, an Endermen swarm overpowered and killed him on the orders of the Ender Dragon itself. Realizing that her own master has orchestrated her father's death, she equips his old sword and armor before returning to her dimension, while revealing to Steve and Gabriel that it is called the End. When she arrives, she is forced to massacre the Endermen swarms when they attack her, before she finds Alex locked in a cage; before she can break her out, the Enderman arrives and engages her in a violent holmgang. The fight eventually reaches a stalement when Alex breaks free and impales the Enderman with a broken piece of obsidian. Raven beheads the Enderman and steals the ender pearl from his head, and gives it to Alex. She tells Alex that throwing it will teleport her, and she does so, while Raven, revealed to have brought the Eye of Ender that Alex used, puts it on a portal frame, and it activates, allowing Raven and Alex to escape, but not before Steve arrives and places TNT bombs around the portal and ignites them to prevent the Endermen swarms from following them.

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  • misterwolf Now back in the overworld, Raven and Alex rebuild their cabin while Steve and Gabriel mine for coal and redstone. A few weeks later, Raven and Alex go on their first adventure in the mountains as the end credits roll.

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  • misterwolf End Credits (with In This Moment's "I Would Die for You"): MINECRAFT: THE BEGINNINGS | Written for the Screen and Directed by Rian Johnson | Produced by Jerry Bruckheimer | Produced by Rian Johnson | Co-written by Colin Trevorrow and J.J. Abrams | Edited by Kirk M. Morri and James Wan | Cinematography by Zack Snyder and Trent Opaloch | Visual Effects by John Knoll | Costumes Designed by Michael Wilkinson | Choreography by Rob Marshall | Based on the Minecraft Video Game by Mojang | Music by Hans Zimmer and Ludwig Göransson | Casting by Sarah Finn and Carmen Cuba | Sasha Calle | Kiernan Shipka | Nicholas Hoult | Chris Hemsworth | Daniel Kaluuya | Brad Garrett | with Russell Crowe | and Oscar Isaac

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  • misterwolf Reception: Many have particularly praised its acting and action sequences. Calle's performance earned a critical and universal acclaim, and her chemistry with Shipka was lauded. The critical consensus simply reads "Highly enjoyable for a game adaptation." The film holds 87% of rotten tomatoes, indicating "generally favorable reviews", with 73% saying they would "definitely recommend it."

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