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“This is especially true of the Nee brothers, who insiders said have a deal at Universal to develop a new hybrid live-action animation film around the Lego franchise (that pact was signed long before the strike). Universal signed a five-year partnership with the Lego Group in 2020 to produce new films and series based on the toys,” Variety explains.
“We know we have to switch it up and take to a different art form that’s still true to LEGO,” Lin said last year. “We should have some announcements soon… I think we’ve reinvented it in a cool way.”
What Happened To The LEGO Batman Movie 2?
A sequel The LEGO Batman Movie was put into development soon after the first film was released, but it never went into production, which could have something to do with Universal acquiring the rights. Earlier this year, the full plot for The LEGO Batman Movie 2 was released.
Speaking with UPROXX, director Chris McKay talked about how the follow-up would have brought in the Justice League and crossed over with another major franchise. He shared, “We had a really fun script with Dan Harmon and Michael Waldron, wrote a really fun kind of Superfriends. The sequel would’ve been a quasi Superfriends movie and the structure was going to be a sort of Godfather II kind of thing with Batman and the Justice League facing a modern-day problem, Lex Luthor and OMAC, while at the same time flashing back to the reasons why Batman and the Justice League – and in particular, Superman – have bad blood.”
He continued, “It was going to explore Superman and Batman’s relationship in a very different way than you’ve ever seen it portrayed, including Superman’s alienation from humanity and how hard it is to truly be friends, real friends, for years. It was ultimately going to answer the question: How do you become Super-friends. And there was going to be a crossover with a major franchise that can only happen in a LEGO movie.”
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