Kirsten Dunst Cast as Alex in A Minecraft Movie 2, Fulfilling Her Wish to Play a Part in the Sequel

Spider-Man and Civil War prima Kirsten Dunst is reportedly joining A Minecraft Movie 2 to play Alex aft teasing her involvement successful a sequel past year.

Deadline reports that she has present signed connected with Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures to play a portion successful the video game-turned-movie sequel. Plot details and an authoritative rubric for the Minecraft movie follow-up are besides being kept nether wraps arsenic it builds toward a July 23, 2027, merchandise date.

Kirsten Dunst. Photo by Samir Hussein/WireImage.

It makes consciousness to spot Dunst, who is besides known for her roles successful Jumanji successful the ‘90s and past year’s Roofman, picking up her tools for A Minecraft Movie 2 to play Alex. Although the different sandbox video crippled icon was absent for the large events of the 2025 Minecraft film, she did look for a brief, off-screen post-credits cameo.

Some fans began to anticipation that Dunst would play Alex successful a sequel aft she expressed her involvement successful a sequel during an interrogation with Town & Country successful August. At the time, she said she would similar to play immoderate portion successful a Minecraft sequel, partially due to the fact that her kids enjoyed successful the archetypal movie – but the other currency wouldn’t hurt, either.

“Maybe I tin conscionable marque a movie wherever I don’t suffer money?” Dunst said during the interview.

Original manager Jared Hess is said to beryllium backmost for the 2nd Minecraft movie, with Chris Galletta backmost to pen its script, too. Jack Black is besides said to beryllium returning arsenic Steve, with Jason Momoa (Garrett), Danielle Brooks (Dawn), Matt Berry (Nitwit), and Jennifer Coolidge (Marlene) each said to beryllium backmost connected board, too.

Warner Bros. announced it was heading backmost to the Crafting Table for A Minecraft Movie 2 successful October 2025. Confirmation the gaming improvement would instrumentality for different communicative was each but astonishing aft the archetypal movie managed to propulsion successful much than $960 cardinal globally aft it premiered past April (according to Box Office Mojo). The movie conscionable hardly missed that $1 cardinal milestone contempt the Block Party Edition bringing fans backmost to theaters for a sing-along re-release successful May, but a sequel inactive seemed to beryllium a no-brainer.

A Minecraft Movie 2 inactive has much than a twelvemonth to spell earlier it digs into theaters. If it’s thing similar the archetypal film, fans should expect chaos if they privation to spot the movie arsenic soon arsenic it premieres. While we hold for much news, beryllium definite to cheque retired our A Minecraft Movie review.

Photo by Samir Hussein/WireImage.

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