When pop muses The Pussycat Dolls first sang the lines, “Be careful what you wish for ’cause you just might get it,” we wonder whether they could’ve ever predicted that 18 years later, Oscar nominee Kirsten Dunst’s wishes would be coming true in front of all of our eyes. Yes, having jokingly told Town & Country Magazine last year that she’d love to be in A Minecraft Movie‘s upcoming sequel because A) her kids love the first film, and B) she’d love to make a load of money (“Maybe I can just make a movie where I don’t lose money?” Dunst said at the time), Deadline is reporting that Dunst is indeed joining Jared Hess’ A Minecraft Movie 2.
Having most recently starred in Derek Cianfrance’s Roofman, Alex Garland’s Civil War, and Jane Campion’s The Power Of The Dog, three great but admittedly less than money-spinning movies, A Minecraft Movie’s sequel will represent a real change of pace for Dunst. In fact, this will be Dunst’s first fully fledged franchise outing since Spider-Man 3 way back when in 2007. Plot details, as you’d suspect, are firmly under wraps for our return to the mines at this point in time, though The Wrap has shared that Dunst is set to play Alex, one of the primary available avatars in Mojang’s video game juggernaut, in the film. What’s more, we also know that Dunst — who we’ll next be seeing in Triangle Of Sadness director Ruben Östlund’s The Entertainment System Is Down — will be joined by Jason Momoa, Jack Black, Danielle Brooks, Matt Berry and Jennifer Coolidge in the sequel.
The first Minecraft movie was a bona fide box-office juggernaut, grossing a colossal $961 billion worldwide as fans went cuckoo for chicken jockey, “I am Steve!”, and the collective phenomenon that has been yearning for the mines. We suspect that Dunst will make that pile of cash — and then some — that she wished for when A Minecraft Movie’s sequel hits cinemas on 23 July, 2027. And frankly, we are here for it.