Jack Black has Become Box Office Gold for Video Game Adaptations - Here's Why It's a Problem

For years, Hollywood has struggled to crack the video game movie code, and it could be argued that Jack Black's the cheat code studios needed. Black has starred in two major film adaptations: The Super Mario Bros. Movie, which finally brings Mario's adventures to the silver screen, and A Minecraft Movie. Both films struck box office gold, with The Super Mario Bros. Movie spawning plans for an entire Mario movie franchise and A Minecraft Movie kicking off a string of major box office hits for Warner Bros. Pictures this year. Black also starred in Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, which wasn't based on a video game but managed to update the Jumanji franchise by applying video game tropes to its classic setup. While that would mean that Jack Black should be a lock for most video game movies, this could be a very slippery slope for those movies.