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Warner Bros. Greenlights CGI Live-Action 'Lego' Movie

By: Derrick Deane on November 14, 2011 at 3:26PM Comments (3)

With the unrelenting trend of reaching back into the childhoods of Generation Xers and adapting toys, games and other fond memories into big-budget motion pictures, it comes as little surprise that Warner Bros. has greenlit a movie based on the Lego toys.

The idea has been kicking around since 2008 with the story being a family-friendly CGI live action adventure. The project currently has Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs writer-directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller on board. Robot Chicken's Chris McKay has also signed on to co-direct. Australian company Animal Logic, which worked on the two Happy Feet movies, will handle the animation. It should hit theaters in 2014.
 
Plot details are scant, but in this interview with Lord and Miller last year, the writers talked about making a “super large-scale brick film,” starring mini-figs interacting in a completely all-Lego environment. They came up with a 40-page treatment that won over Lego execs, known for being fiercely protective of the property.    
 
Other fond childhood memories set to get the movie makeover include He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, Monopoly, Battleship, Hot Wheels, Max Steel, Stretch Armstrong, Where in the World is Carmen San Diego? and Where's Waldo?
 
Are you interested in a Lego movie?

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  • Nov 15th 2011 2:05PM

    Daisho  said...

    Sounds like a disaster come true. Anything green-lighted by Warner Bros is usually not a good idea or to people's liking. But hey you gotta make what money you can in this economy, even if it eventually destroys the name of the theme (like avatar: the last airbender?). I like to call it rape of childhood memories.

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  • Nov 15th 2011 2:32PM

    sylar2744  said...

    I have to agree I really don't see how they are going to make a Legos movie appealing enough for adults to want to have to take thier kids to the movies, sit through it for and hour and a half and then pay for all thier snacks and beverages with thier blood and souls. Me personally I have four boys and to have to pay the ridiculous prices for tickets and snacks the movie has to be outstanding, I already made the mistake of taking them to see Avatar and immediately regretted it as I dozed off in the seat next to them occasionally being woken up by them complaining how horrible the movie was and how they wanted to go home.

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  • Dec 4th 2011 12:43PM

     said...

    If it's anywhere near as bad a Smurfs looked, I'll pass...

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