Villagers and Pillagers (film)

Villagers and Pillagers is a 2025 American comedy-drama action-adventure film directed by Matthew. R with screenplay written by Charlie. S based on the popular video game, Minecraft by Markus Persson and Jens Bergensten. The film stars the voices of Antony Star, Kyrena Dudley, Matt. P Fox, Ed Marques and Kevin Mayberry. The story follows a small villager named Norman who found a secret base full with potions.

Villagers and Pillagers was released for a limited release to theaters on May 19, 2025 before going worldwide a couple of weeks later on June 6, 2025. It 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.

A sequel to the film, titled Villagers and Pillager: Secret War was released a year later on June 17, 2026.

Summary
"A small villager named Norman who ended up finding a secret base with potions while playing hide and seek with his brother, Jim. As the years passed, Norman become an 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

2019 - Mid-2021
Villagers and Pillagers began sometimes before the end of 2019 when Mojang Studios came out with a new idea shortly after the failure of creating a feature-film for their popular video game, Minecraft and that was the possible chance of a animated film loosely based on the new mobs that just released to the public couple months earlier, the Pillagers. In order to write the script for their planned feature-film, they hired screenwriter, Emily Carmichael along with Peter Buchman as the co-writer to work on the screenplay, entitled as and also, Steven S. DeKnight at that time was meant to direct and produced the film while serving as the executive producer in which was all announced in April of 2020 with the working title as The Story of the Pillagers, a budget of mostly around $70 - 75 million dollars and a given release date for sometimes in the year of 2022, a month after the lockdown occurred due to the virus of Covid-19. A few months later sometimes during the summer, the script for the film was finished and later begin its stages of early-development. However, there was a problem and that was the screenplay with the film as they could not find a way to fix up the main character, rather if he would be a villain or just a villager who wants to tests something out and the darker tone. So, they decided to rewrite the first act of the screenplay with Sophie. A to help out with ideas and production was brought to a halt. A couple months later in December 2020, the screenplay was announced by the writers to be at last completed and the film can begin production again after nearly 3 months of rewriting over and over again, and lastly, revealing the new title of the film to be, The Pillagers due to the people knowing it will be a docmentary like-film. Also, they both stated that half of the story which was 50% percent had to be rewritten again. They thought they had fixed up the story fully. But as time moves on into early-2021, the story was still not working. So to fix it all up (again), the film was delayed a year to mid-2023 and had to take out characters and once again for the second time, rewrite the story in which causes drama for the team about delaying the film again because when the film begin a year earlier, they made themself a deal to release the date in 2022 and not any-other year. The first test-screening of the film occurred in April 2021 and it didn't go well as they meant for. The kids were very scared of the action and the brutal fights as there were blood. After that, the team were so stressed and disappointed. It only got more worse when the director of the planned-film ended up quitting the project for a different film; It was unknown why he quit.

Because of that, the film was cancelled on July 18, 2021, leaving the project to be lost for good. It was stated that the reason why the film was cancelled was because they didn't know what to do left of the film as the project was beginning to lost interest and also recording to one of the writers in an interview who worked on the first attempt of the film, he stated that the story would have follow: "A villager named Alex who is kicked out from his village after he drinks a potion in which made him turned evil. Now, the villagers might stop from doing anymore chaos to the peaceful village"

Late 2021 - 2022
''Coming Soon! (Work in Progess)''