Kate McKinnon & Jemaine Clement Join Jason Momoa ‘Minecraft’ Gang At Warner Bros

EXCLUSIVE: Barbie star and SNL decade vet Kate McKinnon and Flight of the Conchords maestro Jemaine Clement are joining the mushrooming ensemble of Jared Hess’ Minecraft at Warner Bros.

Also news today is that Domain has boarded as a co-financier on the feature take of the Mojang videogame alongside previously announced Legendary.

McKinnon and Clement join Jason Momoa, Jack Black, Danielle Brooks, Emma Myers, Sebastian Eugene Hansen as well as Jennifer Coolidge; most of whom Deadline told you about first.

The movie is shooting in New Zealand with screenplay credits to be determined on a storyline that’s buried deep in the Earth. Producers are Roy Lee, Jon Berg, Mary Parent, Cale Boyter, Jason Momoa, Torfi Frans Olafsson, Vu Bui, Jill Messick (posthumously). EPs are Todd Hallowell, Kayleen Walters, Brian Mendoza and Jonathan Spaihts.

Also producing with Warners and Legendary are Vertigo, Mojang/Microsoft and Momoa’s On the Roam.

McKinnon won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in 2016 and 2017 and was nominated every year from 2014 until she left show in 2022.  Additionally, she earned a Critics’ Choice Award for Best Actress in a Comedy Series in 2016. McKinnon returned to host “SNL” in December. Her feature credits are Bombshell, Danny Boyle’s Beatles-inspired musical romcom Yesterday, the Lionsgate action-comedy The Spy Who Dumped Me opposite Mila Kunis, Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters, and Office Christmas Party opposite Jason Bateman and Jennifer Aniston.  McKinnon played Weird Barbie in Warner Bros.’ highest grossing movie ever, Barbie ($1.44 billion) which won two Golden Globes for Cinematic and Box Office Achievement and the original song “What Was I Made For?” from Billie Eilish an Finneas O’Connell. McKinnon is repped by CAA, Artists First and attorney Melissa Fox.

New Zealand native Clement counts such feature credits as Avatar: The Way of Water and Sony’s upcoming Harold & The Purple Crayon. He created and executive produces the comedy series Wellington Paranormal (CW/HBO Max), as well as What We Do In The Shadows (FX/Hulu). He is currently writing and executive producing the upcoming AppleTV+ series Time Bandits, based on Terry Gillima’s 1981 film. He starred in the 2018 Sundance Film Festival premiere An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn alongside Aubrey Plaza and Craig Robinson. Clement also appeared opposite Ben Stiller in the Annapurna feature Brad’s Status, which premiered at the 2017 Toronto Film Festival. In television, Clement starred as “Oliver Bird” in FX’s drama series Legion created by Noah Hawley. He is one-half of the musical comedy duo Flight of the Conchords. Clement is repped by UTA, Jeff Endlich and Yorn Levine.