One of my favourite movie tales concerns Marathon Man, a 1976 thriller starring Dustin Hoffman and [[link]] Laurence Olivier. Known for his method approach, Hoffman stayed up for three days in preparation for a scene in which his character was sleep-deprived. When he found out about this approach, the urbane Olivier apparently said to the young Hoffman: "My dear boy, why don't you just try acting?"
does not feature Hoffman, but it turns out the film's all-star cast also took something of a method approach to bringing the game to life: a private server for the whole cast and crew, in which Jack Black decided he had to prove himself a "real Minecrafter."
A Minecraft Movie producer Torfi Frans Ólafsson says that the server is still live. "I kept it up and I extended it for a year," says Ólafsson. "I popped up in there a couple days ago and I said, 'Wait, there's somebody online!' I went in, and there were these two security guards who worked the gate on set and and they're like, 'Hey, welcome!' I said, "You guys are still in here?' and they said, 'Oh, yeah!'"
Sadly there's no screens of Jack Black's magnificent mansion, but then maybe it's best left to the imagination. A Minecraft Movie has , and its winning translation of the game's aesthetic can be seen everywhere at the moment (and the director's already ). The secret to starring in such a film is clear: my dear boy, why don't you try Minecrafting.