Minecraft-inspired movie shut down

Brandon Laatsch: co-creator of the FreddieW channel on Youtube and Video Game High School. And you don't want this guy making a movie for you why...?

More media about game would do well for the franchise. I hardly know why such a dull graphic game is so popular.

Idiots... Next, why not make a new Spiderman feature without the consent of the creators?

With these types of brainiacs running the show, I'm sure it was a masterpiece...

Obvious con and ploy by all parties involved to garner interest and capitalize. This is exactly why `donating` to public fundraisers such as Kickstarter should be done with a warning caveat. Everyone benefits except the people donating, who get the shaft for their efforts. Fools.

Dude puts in A YEAR of work and doesn't talk to Mojang? I just don't see how he expected to be successful....

I saw the trailer for the movie and even as a huge FreddieWong/BrandonJLA fan it looked like shit. I never once thought for a second it would raise 600,00$ let alone actually get cleared by Mojang. There's already a dearth of bad let's plays and other content revolving around minecraft and we really don't need more to throw on the shit heap.

If it was not Mojang but rather companies with terribly different public image, there would be more outcry.

well of course, you can't just go and use someone else's ip without their permission

Considering this "game" is a ripoff of Lego Creator and Voxelstein 3D, what are his grounds?

Noch did not invent voxel graphics, building things, or retarded rules that make no fucking sense. Other games have done that long before this waste of time "game".

I had more fun making levels in the Build engine than this turd.

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It's all about the money. If he'd done it without asking for money, perhaps it wouldn't have been shut down. I generally don't see any reason to shut down fan projects like this, except when there is money involved.

Thats a shame :(

So does he get to keep the 63 grand?

I remember when I tried to make a Candy Crush Saga movie... Man was that a bad idea. Not the movie, the game itself.

Thank god this was canceled....

I'm not exactly clued up on this sort of thing, but it does strike me as daft that he'd ask for money to make a movie off an IP without asking the owners of the IP. I'm sure he could have been sneaky and just made a movie based on voxel games. Surely that wouldn't have been stopped by Mojong, as they don't own voxel world builder games, just Minecrafts trademark?

How could Brandon be so naive? This is super stupid. He should have asked Notch first. Maybe a 5 Min film he'll let you get away with but 500K, nope. That is just pushing your luck in any case.

didnt see that coming from a million miles away

he could still make the thing and post it on Youtube for no profit.....would probably get many followers and views....

Isn't minecraft just legos online?

We already got Minecraft movie now, it's call Lego Movie is now the number one Movie.

No kidding. Come on Brandon. These guys make videos ALL of the time. They are also the ones that made a pretty ok Youtube series. They should no better than to think they can just do stuff like this without even a little back and forth with the people that own the IP.

Also, Minecraft the movie? More like "Spunge more off of their community by making a movie about a game that a lot of people know".

I get the kickstarter for the first season of your Youtube series but Kickstarter after Kickstarter..come on.

Just go and watch Lego The Movie.....don't need this....

I saw the Kickstarter a few days ago and thought "Why on Earth would anyone make a film around this? This is a terrible idea". And I couldn't believe for a second this was cleared with Mojang. And it's clear it wasn't. It's probably for the best, the preview footage looked embarrassingly silly and a waste of good visual effects talent.

You would think with all the experience this dude has with filmmaking on YouTube and the copyright laws you need to be wary of when it comes to third party content claims, he wouldn't have made such a glaring legal mistake like trying to make money off a pre-existing piece of intellectual property, let alone asked for half a million dollars to do it.