Was That a Herobrine Easter Egg in A Minecraft Movie? Producer Responds

If you’re a Minecraft die-hard, you mightiness person seen 1 peculiarly sneaky Easter ovum successful the caller movie adaptation A Minecraft Movie — but each is not what it seems. According to Mojang Studios Senior Creative Director of Entertainment and shaper connected A Minecraft Movie, Torfi Frans Olafsson, that infinitesimal that seemed to beryllium alluding to the 2010 Creepypasta communicative Herobrine isn't an Easter egg, but a mistake the ocular effects squad ran retired of clip to fix.

Warning! Spoilers for A Minecraft Movie follow:

For context, A Minecraft Movie has a country that takes spot astatine the Woodland Mansion wherever Henry (Sebastian Hansen) meets an Enderman who puts him successful a authorities wherever he’s capable to spot a imaginativeness of Steve (Jack Black), but the quality is verbally berating him arsenic his eyes spell white. Because Herobrine is characterized arsenic Steve with achromatic eyes, fans were convinced that the infinitesimal signified that determination was a aboriginal for the Creepypasta communicative wrong the MCU (Minecraft Cinematic Universe, duh).

However, Olafsson has formed uncertainty connected this assumption. "It’s ace unusual that each of their eyes were expected to beryllium purple but erstwhile it was rendered 1 of the characters eyes kept coming retired achromatic successful the last rendered frames truthful we coiled up keeping it similar that, due to the fact that the VFX workplace ran retired of time," helium revealed connected X / Twitter.

In the aboriginal Minecraft days, an anonymous poster connected 4chan claimed they saw an in-game mentation of Steve with achromatic eyes and weird powers showing up astir the game. Following the post, a Creepypasta communicative surfaced, which “revealed” that the quality anomaly was really the tone of a dormant player.

Behold, Herobrine.

Olafsson's remark is being taken by galore fans arsenic a knowing wink to this being a genuine Herobrine Easter ovum successful A Minecraft Movie. After each the gag is that it's an unfixable error, that Herobrine appears and can't beryllium removed.

While it would’ve been chill if that Easter ovum was successful information an Easter egg, it seems wide by the code of this movie that the Minecraft movie adaptations don’t truly person immoderate involvement successful leaning into the spooky broadside of things. Sorry guys.

Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.