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After manifesting her way into the Minecraft Movie franchise, Kirsten Dunst is ready to visit the Overworld.
The Oscar-nominated actress, who was cast as Alex in the upcoming sequel back in March, teased that production has begun on the followup to last year’s A Minecraft Movie, sharing a photo of her and Jack Black‘s director’s chairs on set.
“It has begun…..” Dunst captioned a photo of the chairs with their character names Alex and Steve printed in block letters.
Dunst previously threw her hat in the ring for the sequel, noting last August that her children love the first movie and she wants to “make a movie where I don’t lose money.”
In March, Deadline exclusively reported that Dunst will play Alex in the sequel, after announcing in October that director Jared Hess is returning to helm A Minecraft Movie 2 from a script by Hess & Chris Galletta, which is set for a July 23, 2027 release. She joins returning cast members, Black, Jason Momoa, Danielle Brooks, Matt Berry and Jennifer Coolidge.
Hess previously told Deadline a Minecraft Movie sequel “would be so much fun” after the first movie’s record-breaking box office haul kicked off in April 2025, becoming Warner Bros’ third largest opening of all time.
“We had so much fun making this movie, and it’s such an expansive world in the game, and there were so many things that we didn’t tap into that we wanted to,” explained Hess. “I would have a blast doing the sequel, and it seems like there’s already talk about it happening, so I’m super excited. It’ll be so much fun to go back into the world. The fans are just having such a good time. We teased it in the end credits, and the fans seem to be going wild for it.”
After teasing “the other massively critical character” from the game, Alex, at the end of the first movie, Hess noted, “It’s Steve (Black) and Alex, and so that’s the one that we will be bringing to the table without a doubt.”
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