Notch thinks the Minecraft movie looks pretty neat, actually: 'I was expecting way worse'

The first trailer for the upcoming Minecraft film, titled A Minecraft Movie, arrived last week, giving us a first look at Jason Momoa in a wig chewing lots of scenery. The reactions have been quite mixed—it truly is a baffling creation, and you can't really tell if this movie is going to be a light entertainment classic or a Borderlands-scale disaster.

One man watching on from the sidelines with amusement and interest is Markus «Notch» Persson, the creator of Minecraft. Notch first released Minecraft in 2009, and oversaw its early years of development before, in 2014, selling the game and Mojang Studios to Microsoft in a deal worth $2.5 billion.

«Ok I'm in,» says Notch of the trailer. «Wow this is a weird feeling.» The programmer went on to call it «pretty surreal» seeing his old project becoming a Hollywood movie, and thinks it's «very cool they got Jack Black.»

As for the trailer itself: «For a movie about a game with literally zero plot, it looks surprisingly fun,» says Notch. «I laughed… I think twice. Yes, the sheep got me.» One user opines that it just looks like an advert for the game starring Jack Black and Jason Momoa. «Well duh,» replies Notch.

«I'm all for the spectacle» says Notch, discussing his feelings on Minecraft becoming a movie. «I probably would've even agreed to Uwe Boll making it. I don't have the same relationship to the game as the players do, for me it's more about seeing new weird takes on ideas that sometimes were just spur-of-the-moment things (like the creeper!)»

Speaking of the creeper, the furry style of it in the movie has not gone down well with some. But Notch says he's «Sort of used to it because of the plushies, so it works. In my original headcanon, they have more like a pile-of-leaf-like texture. Rustling, you know. But like I said, the plushies kinda rewired my brain, so furry's fine.»

Reactions to the trailer have not been universally positive, shall we say, and Minecraft fan Kieran tells Notch «it looks absolutely horrible