‘Minecraft’ Movie To Be Directed By Rob McElhenney From It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia

That’s right! Mac from It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia is in talks with Warner Bros to direct the upcoming Mincraft movie.

A VERY sparse announcement was posted earlier today on Mojangs official website.

Hello there!

Some of you may have seen this guy hanging around MINECON in London a couple weeks ago. He’s Rob McElhenney, and he’s going to be directing the upcoming Minecraft movie.

I would say that this is a very ODD first choice for director, but a Mincraft movie is an odd product to consider in the first place.

Rob McElhenney hasn’t really directed much outside of Always Sunny, he did just land a writer/director gig over at Legendary Pictures for his upcoming film Figment. That film is a family action-adventure script about an over imaginative boy and his family who have to deal with their greatest fears coming to life. It sounds like Rob has aspirations of being a director of all ages properties, so someone at Legendary MUST have given out his name to the folks at Warner.

What do you you think about Mac directing a kids movie?