It's 2024 and Jennifer Coolidge is starring in a Minecraft movie

At this point, the best we can do is throw up our hands and say… you know what, fine. Sure! We’re only 17 days into the new year and two-time Emmy Award winning actor Jennifer Coolidge is officially starring in a Minecraft movie. That’s fine. Everything is fine!

The announcement that Coolidge will trade gays who try to kill you for blocks that try to kill you came today from Deadline. The Jared Hess-directed film will be based on the immensely popular Mojang/Microsoft game, which lets users inhabit little block people living and working in a world made out of blocks where an infinite number of mods and different game modes can make the blocks do an infinite number of things.

You know what? We honestly may have laughed at this casting too early. This goofy movie may turn out to be Coolidge’s magnum opus. Lest we forget, this is the same actor who once said her dream role was to play a real dolphin like Flipper. Hess, we beg you, download this mod where you can play the game as a dolphin and let Coolidge live out that dream. She’s not the only one that needs it.

In addition to Coolidge, the film also stars Jason Momoa, Emma Myers, Danielle Brooks, Sebastian Eugene Hansen, and Jack Black, who’s really run the whole video-game-to-movie-adaptation gamut as of late. Not much else is known about the story thus far, and Deadline reports that writing credits are still being determined. If there are still holes in the script, we’d like to humbly remind the team that it’s totally okay if they don’t want to download the last dolphin mod we suggested; you can keep them as pets too!

Minecraft is currently slated for April 2025, which means that anyone frustrated by the recent boom in films about pre-existing stuff has a long road ahead of them. If it all feels like too much, maybe J.J. Abrams’ Hot Wheels or Daniel Kaluuya’s “surrealistic,” “A24-type” Barney will change your mind.