Villagers and Pillagers (film)

Villagers and Pillagers is a 2024 American animated comedy-drama musical action-adventure film produced by Mojang Studios and was released by Warner Bros. It is directed, produced and written by Charlie. S and based on the popular video game, Minecraft. It stars the voices of; Antony Star as the villain, alongside Kyrena Dudley, Matt P Fox, Ed Marques and Kevin Mayberry. Alex Paul was hired to work on the film's songs. The film's story follows a small villager named Norman who ended up finding a secret base with potions. As the years passed, Norman become a adult, but begins to become more and more mean. It was so bad that the Villagers have to kick him out, leaving him all alone. Now he wants revenge and his friend, Jake alongside, a few sidekicks must stop him from doing more damage to the village.

Villagers and Pillagers was pitch by Matthew. R as a non-musical film and was more darker than the final version, with a screenplay shortly after the release of the Village and Pillage Update and the failed attempt to make a story about Minecraft in late-2019. It later entered early-development with the working titles of, The Pillagers and The Villagers and the Pillagers. It marked as the first official Minecraft film ever to be released.

Villagers and Pillagers was released for a limited release to theaters on May 19, 2024 before going worldwide a couple of weeks later on June 6, 2024. Upon its release, it was praised for its action, screenplay, voice acting, musical score, cinematograph and themes and was a huge success at the box office, bringing in more than $400 million dollars and received acclaim from critics, audiences and fans of the video game with praise aiming to its screenplay, voice acting, musical score, action, editing, cinematograph, themes and faithful to the source material.

Summary
"A small villager named Norman who ended up finding a secret base with potions. As the years passed, Norman become a adult, but begins to become more and more mean. It was so bad that the Villagers have to kick him out, leaving him all alone. Now he wants revenge and his friend, Jake alongside, a few sidekicks must stop him from doing more damage to the village"

Script & Development
Back in the early months of 2019 during the time when a new update called, "Village and Pillage" update was released to the public, Charlie. S thought about writing a page-treatment for a film, not about the game itself, but on the new mobs, the Pillagers instead since she was in love with them. So shortly after thinking of the outline of the film, she started to work on the screenplay, along with his friend named Paul Smith. Recording to Charlie, while writing the story, there were some issues on how the character should be; rather it will be a villain who worked on the potion to turn everyone evil or just someone trying to make a potion, but ending up going wrong. Luckily, they both ended up figuring out the problem and together, they wrote a 110 page-treatment titled, The History of the Pillagers in which was way darker than what ended up in the final version as it was about a group of adult villagers creating a special potion and drinking it in which as the years passed, they become evil by stealing, burning down houses and making a army for a war, recording to the writers. Paul and Charlie finished the script a month later sometimes in the Summer that same year and decided to pitched the project to a studio, called Warner Bros. Picture.