- A Minecraft movieThe director has defended his visuals in the middle of hard fan criticism
- People have reacted negatively to the film’s art style in different trailers
- Jared Hess said test screening groups responded more positively to what it looks like
Jared Hess has launched a hard defense of A Minecraft movie‘s visuals after hard fan criticism of his art style.
Hess, who spoke exclusively to Techradar, admitted that he was always worried that the live-action-animated hybrid film had the risk of having his own “ugly sonic moment.”
The incident he refers to, of course, is the nightmare fuel reveal of a humanoid-ser Sonic the Hedgehog in the first trailer for Sega Mascot’s first film. A loud setback followed, and after paramount images saw Sense and frenetically run to fix what Sonic looked like in his big screen debut, fans of Blue Blur were much happier with the final product.
After the release of A Minecraft movie‘s first teaser in September 2024, a similar tough fan campaign to review Warner Bros-produced film’s terrible visuals quickly got traction online.
In fact, some long -standing fans of the world’s best -selling video games took it on themselves to fix his art style. Numerous fan-made videos, including those from X/Twitter user Alumio and Redditor Justinisnotweird, redirected the teaser with the franchise’s signature pixel art.
Unfortunately, Minecraft fans’ call to finely pour the film’s actual aesthetics on deaf ears. Now Hess has explained why A Minecraft movieVisuals was not revised in the seven months between the first trailer launch and one of 2025’s new film’s upcoming April 4th release.
“You know it’s so funny because people ever since I boarded this project said, ‘Hi, we’ve got to avoid an ugly sonic moment’,” Hess told me. “It was something we talked about all the time.
“And then you know when the first teaser came out, there was so much that was taken out of context. Teasers tend to be short and visually blow up with content that doesn’t have much context.”
People still said ‘Hi, we have to avoid an ugly sonic moment’
JARED HESS, A MINECRAFT -FILM REGORSOR
“For the record there were a lot of things [in the teaser] It was unfinished, “Hess continued.” A lot of trailers look like a movie that hasn’t been fully realized. You still have months of work to do on it, so when these reactions came in we said ‘oh, that [the backlash] is just something we have to navigate. “
“But we had such a belief in the movie we made. We had begun to screen it, and based on audience reactions we knew we were on the right track. It’s wild to be like filmmakers who, even when you test screen, you still have unfinished visual effect shots, so you ask the audience to use their imagination as they see it.”
“So it’s amazing to see it when it’s finally ended and see all PF the hard work that has gone into everything and to bring this world to life. To be able to share it with people and watch them enjoy it and have an explosion. It’s a dream come true for any filmmaker.”
I will be * Ahem * make more news exclusive from my chat with Jared Hess in the coming days, so be sure to check in with me soon. And don’t forget to keep your eyes peeled for my review of A Minecraft movie Later this week to see what I did from Warner’s acquisition of Microsoft and Mojang’s incredibly popular Sandbox game.
