One reason the majority of movies based on video games have failed is because their filmmakers didn’t understand how to translate the appeal of the game to the relatively-limited storytelling ability of film.

Actor Jack Black found the world of the Warner Bros film “A Minecraft Movie” easy to navigate because he had played the 2011 Swedish video game “Minecraft,” on which the movie is based.

Those terrifying moments make A Minecraft Movie stand out, playing with the fears we have as children, and the ways that films can help us learn our boundaries. For Jason Momoa, the film that scarred him as a kid is still shaping his capacity for horror today.

The actors joined Jennifer Coolidge and Danielle Brooks for the movie's world premiere in London's Leicester Square.

In an interview with ABC4, Jack Black and Jason Momoa answered questions from Utah kids ahead of the release of "A Minecraft Movie."

A Minecraft Movie” offers a great surprise in Jason Momoa’s Garrett Garrison, the aging gamer for whom time has stood still. More than a hair-metal Gen X boomer stereotype, Momoa’s “1989 gamer of the year” delights as a soft reboot of Uncle Rico,

If there’s an acting task Jack Black is most qualified for, it’s probably playing a video game character. One of the first jobs the funnyman booked was starring in an ad for Activision’s Pitfall! game in the 1980s.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — When Jack Black got the call to star in the “Minecraft” movie, the perks were plenty. He got to work alongside Jason Momoa, reunite with “Nacho Libre” director Jared Hess and engulf himself into a beloved gaming universe.