It's only April, and we're already getting a taste of Halloween. Remember when "-Removed Herobrine" was a common sight in Minecraft's patch notes? According to one of Mojang's producers for A Minecraft Movie, that addendum could be found in the film's development process, and it wasn't a joke.
Creative director Torfi Frans Olafsson asserts that the scene with the supposed Herobrine easter egg wasn't meant to look like that.
In the scene, Henry gets put into a trance by an Enderman, where we see visions of Steve saying some nasty stuff. Olafsson says that in that scene, Steve's eyes were intended to be purple, matching the power of the Endermen.
"When it was rendered, one of the character's eyes kept coming out white in the final rendered frames," says Olafsson in a post on X. "We wound up keeping it like that, because the VFX studio ran out of time."
They saw those pale eyes, and wanted to remove them - tried several times, even - but they kept coming back. Ultimately, fate would have them appear in the final cut, despite Mojang's orders to replace white with purple. At least, that's the tale.
Olafsson's story doesn't seem implausible -...
