Earlier this 12 months, The Lego Movie celebrated its 10-year anniversary. While the franchise was everywhere in the 2010s with spinoffs for that film’s Batman (as voiced by Will Arnett) and its precise Ninjago toyline, it hasn’t been seen since Lego Movie 2 again in 2019. Part of that may be owed to Warner Bros.’ partnership with Lego ending in 2020, but it surely sounds just like the Danish toy firm is getting ready to get again into the moviemaking enterprise within the close to future.
During a latest Variety interview, Lego’s world leisure head Jill Wilfert revealed the corporate was actively growing “a whole range of ideas and concepts” with Universal. The two firms have had a five-year deal going since 2020, however don’t even have something to indicate for it past a Lego retelling of the unique Jurassic Park again in 2022. Last 12 months, rumors started spinning up about Universal making a live-action/animation hybrid Lego flick, however Wilfert was evasive. Her response to a query about teaming with Netflix may very well be learn as a basic, cryptic assertion about Lego’s present deal: “At this point, we’re super happy, super focused on what we have going on with Universal.”
What she did say, although, was that Lego could have shot itself within the foot with the WB motion pictures. The 4 movies, she defined, suffered from popping out in a brief five-year window—Lego Batman and Ninjago each launched in 2017, for instance. They weren’t duds, and Wilfert highlighted how their critiques have been some “better than the box office might indicate.” Still, she had no bother admitting it’s “tough” to make motion pictures, therefore the pivot away from the silver display screen.
TV has been a part of Lego’s entire deal for many years, but it surely actually turned pronounced as soon as the films have been executed. Its Lego Masters actuality competitors sequence has been a worldwide hit since 2017 (because of its Fox model within the US and country-specific variations), and there’s been loads of animated sequence and films like Lego Monkie Kid and Lego Dreamzzz: Trials of the Dream Chasers for youthful audiences. Even if nothing comes of its Universal deal, it appears the Danish toy firm shall be alright ultimately.
Variety’s full interview with Wilfert will be learn right here.
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