Throw a pickaxe in Hollywood today, and you could easily hit a dozen video game adaptations in the works as TV series and movies. They’re all vying for the same things — critical acclaim, big bucks at the box office or streaming subscriber spikes from built-in fandoms. But it’s a risky gamble: Will they become a “Borderlands” movie flop, or a “Last of Us” success?
Next month, Legendary Entertainment, Warner Bros. Pictures and Microsoft are mining for box office gold with a different kind of game-to-film adaptation: “A Minecraft Movie.”
For the uninitiated, the Microsoft-owned “Minecraft” is a sandbox game that drops players into the Overworld, a whimsical
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