Jack Black is set to play Steve in A Minecraft Movie, but that wasn’t always going to be the case. Originally, Black was actually going to play a talking pig. No porky pies here – really, a talking pig.
In an interview with Variety, Mojang senior director of original content Torfi Frans Ólafsson revealed Black’s switch to become Steve happened “very, very, very late” in the game. Ólafsson stated the team “needed an expert and host” in the film, and so Black went from being envisioned as a talking pig to becoming Steve.
Now, if you saw the trailers with Jack Black as Steve, and said to yourself (or even out loud), ‘hang on, that isn’t Steve! That’s just Jack Black in a blue shirt!’. Well, you weren’t alone, and the A Minecraft Movie team is aware of those reactions.