{"id":53185,"date":"2024-10-31T14:45:55","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T18:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=53185"},"modified":"2024-11-02T15:13:33","modified_gmt":"2024-11-02T19:13:33","slug":"universal-developing-three-live-action-lego-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2024\/10\/31\/universal-developing-three-live-action-lego-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"Universal Developing Three Live Action LEGO Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Universal is developing three live action movies based on the popular Lego building blocks toy.<\/p>\n

Deadline<\/a> is reporting that the studio, in conjunction through its deal with The LEGO Group, is working with directors Jake Kasdan, Patty Jenkins and Joe Cornish on a trio of untitled live action Lego films.<\/p>\n

Kasdan would be working off a script by The Grinder<\/strong> screenwriters Andrew Mogel and Jarrad Paul with an original idea and previous drafts by The Pickup<\/strong>‘s scribes Matt Mider and Kevin Burrows. Jenkins\u2019 version is a screenplay which she wrote with her Wonder Woman 84<\/strong> collaborator and former DC Entertainment President Geoff Johns. Cornish is reportedly currently rewriting a screenplay draft by Rick & Morty<\/em> writer Heather Anne Campbell who penned her draft from a treatment by Man Seeking Woman<\/strong> scripter Simon Rich.<\/p>\n

The LEGO Group was first teamed with Warner Brothers for a quartet of animated Lego movives starting with the aptly named The Lego Movie<\/strong> in 2014, which earning $467 million at the worldwide box office. Their first follow-up, 2017’s The Lego Batman Movie<\/strong>, also turned a tidy profit for the pair. Unfortunately, the two films subsequent films, 2017’s The Lego Ninjago Movie<\/strong> and 2019’s The Lego Movie 2: The Second Brick<\/strong>, performed poorly, not getting into the black on the studio’s ledger.<\/p>\n

Notably, none of the trades reporting on this story have any information on what Universal’s plans for the three different projects. Are these three in a bake-off situation, where the studio will ultimately go with whichever one they feel is the best? (While not a common practice, it is also not an entirely alien concept for studios. Paramount recently did it<\/a> with their Transformers<\/strong> franchise, ultimately choosing a screenplay that became 2023’s Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts<\/strong>. Granted, that was perhaps not the studio’s best decision given the final film.) Are these three films the start of a connected, live-action Lego franchise or will they just be three stand alone Lego films? That seems unlikely, as studio’s seem to be more cautious about announcing long-range franchise plans in the wake of several box office and critical disappointments over the last couple of years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The studio is developing three live action films based on the popular building brick toy, but details are murky. <\/div>\n

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