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Phil Lord And Chris Miller On The Upcoming LEGO Movies
From Ninjago to The LEGO Movie 2
Back in November, there were a few quotes from the Empire Podcast interview with
LEGO Movie and Jump Street directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller worth analysing
in their own news story, and now you can enjoy some more, in the form of these
outtakes from our Oscars Special interview with the very same pair. In short, if
you’re excited about Ninjago, The LEGO Batman Movie and The LEGO Movie 2, click
no further, brick botherers.
Are you going to direct The LEGO Movie 2?
Miller: “I don’t think so. We’re writing the sequel right now and obviously
producing all the other ones. There’s a challenge to make each one feel like its
own thing. Part of the fun is finding people like Charlie Bean, who’s doing the
Ninjago movie, and Chris McKay who did so much on the first film. Each of them
have their own distinct voices and ideas for tone. So it will each have its own
personality and not just be, ‘Hey, remember that last movie? Here’s another one
just like it!” So that’s been a big challenge but so far it’s been going better
than I expected.”
Lord: “I think it’s nice for all these other films to have their own voice and
that’s what’s neat about working with all these other filmmakers. They come up
with solutions you wouldn’t think of. Watching Charlie Bean’s sequences for
Ninjago is so gratifying because he’s able to make it play without any dialogue
and has a really great visual style. It’s really nice and refreshing. I think it
would get boring if we directed them all, quite honestly.”
Will the other films have the same ‘LEGO self-awareness’ that your film had?
Miller: “We talk about them and oftentimes we say, ‘What can you do in this
movie that you can only do because it’s a LEGO movie?’ Obviously you’re not just
going to do a straight Batman movie. You have to take advantage of the medium
you’re working in. So then you have the advantage of the Will Arnett version of
Batman. On top of that we’re trying to take advantage of the fact that it’s
LEGO.”
Lord: “Sometimes the more serious you take the material the funnier it is.
They’re so cute. They’re like three heads tall and they look like Smurfs, so if
they take themselves seriously there’s something funny about it.”
You’re writing LEGO Movie 2. You weren’t originally, so what changed?
Miller: “We thought we’d said everything we wanted to say about creativity and
imagination and the inherent nature of Lego, and that left-brain/right-brain
nature. So we were scared about trying to write something that felt like the
next chapter and new ideas and not just a rehash.”
Lord: “We also worried we didn’t have enough time. Luckily, Chris McKay and
Jared Stern and Michelle Morgan all worked on the movie a bit in our absence and
really cracked the beginnings of a story and got us really excited; excited
enough to write it. We should be writing right now. We’ve opened a Final Draft
document and titled it. I mean, that’s really the hardest part. And we’ve chosen
the formatting. That is all that’s happened so far. We’ve been outlining a
bunch.”
Miller: “There are some really fun new themes that we didn’t explore in the
first movie and got us really excited, so that it’s its own thing. With 22 Jump
Street we did the whole making fun of yourself for just doing the same thing
again. We can’t do that ever again. You can only go so far up your own rear
end.”
In broad strokes, what do you want to explore with the second?
Miller: “Well I don’t want to give you spoilers but we were really interested
in what happens to that boy who’s in the meta story in the first movie when he’s
four years older. When he’s an adolescent how does that change his point of
view?
“And it’s nice to have the characters start in a different place from the first
movie. Emmet, for example, was in an existential crisis of having seen another
dimension and was questioning the whole point of his existence.”
The LEGO Movie 2 is set for a 2018 release, The LEGO Batman Movie will come
out February 10, 2017, and Ninjago will hit cinemas on October 14, 2016. The
current issue, where more from Lord and Miller can be found, is out now.
From: Empireonline.com
Video: The LEGO Movie - “Creating the Bricks”
YouTube.com Warner Bros. Pictures.
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THE LEGO MOVIE Sequel Set for May 26, 2017 Release
Everything will continue to be awesome. With the incredibly impressive box
office hold of The LEGO Movie, it was inevitable that Warner Bros. would be
moving forward with a sequel. The studio began developing a follow-up with
screenwriter Jared Stern (Mr. Popper’s Penguins) weeks before the film’s
release, and now Box Office Mojo reports that Warner Bros. has slated the
untitled sequel for release on May 26, 2017. It’s unclear who will be
spearheading the film behind the scenes, but LEGO Movie writers/directors Phil
Lord and Chris Miller previously said that they would probably produce the
follow-up, so one imagines they won’t be returning as directors; they’re no
doubt fielding a flood of offers for other projects at the moment.
After opening to $69 million and overwhelmingly positive reviews, The LEGO
Movie’s current worldwide gross already stands at $202 million after just two
weeks in release, and it’s expected to maintain its hold on the box office again
this weekend. WB is also developing a Ninjago movie and a recent report
suggested that it might hit theaters before a LEGO Movie sequel, but it appears
that the further adventures of Emmet and Co. will instead come first.
Collider.com
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LEGO Batman vs LEGO Superman
The LEGO Batman Vs LEGO Superman video created by Keshen8 on YouTube.com. A very
creative animation of stop motion using LEGO elements.
Video time: 1.03 minutes of action.
YouTube.com channel: Keshen8
LEGO Batman Vs. LEGO Superman
Enjoy!
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LEGO Ironman New Suit
The Ironman New Suit video was created by Keshen8 on YouTube.com. A very
creative animation of stop motion using LEGO elements.
Video time: 1.04 minutes of action.
YouTube.com channel: Keshen8
LEGO Ironman’s New Suit
Enjoy!
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In lugnet.animation, Abner Finley wrote:
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The LEGO Wire animation video.
If you remember the TV series ‘The Wire’, you might get it.
From YouTube.com The Wire - LEGO
Style
Enjoy!
Note: (The LEGO Group does not sponsor, authorize, or endorse this video.)
“You play with toys in dirt, you will get dirty toys.” - McNultly
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Here is another link to the video:
The Wire - LEGO Style!
-Enjoy!
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