Warner Bros Developing LEGO Movie...

[addison81]

I bet the merch for this is going to be ridiculous. This is one of my most anticipated movies next year.

 

[addison81]

To curious: #TheLegoMovie is a hybrid film. CG w/ real Lego elements done in a photoreal stop-motion style. & a secret bit of live-action.

From Chris Miller on his twitter account.

Live action? This movie will be interesting.

 

[dark_b]

maybe when a kid is playing with the lego's they will be using real actors.

 

[Pink Ranger]

maybe when a kid is playing with the lego's they will be using real actors.

The end of the movie will reveal the whole thing was a result of a real-life Nicolas Cage playing with his Lego sets, alone, in the basement, in the dark, wearing nothing but his boxer shorts and a superman cape.

 

[Airwings]

Interesting thing that WB have more trust in Lego: The Movie than Flash, Wonder Woman and other classic DC properties.
My child-in-the-sandbox symbolism last year has more truth to it than I feared.

Little kids love lego, you know!

 

[Pink Ranger]

CGI cartoons (or partial CGI in this case) are a cash cow for movie studios. Except Mars Needs Moms, who knows WTF happened there, but in this case there's a lot of money to be made with less risk than doing a live-action version of a famous character who may or may not have a built-in fanbase.

Kids will see a Lego movie, and their parents will buy the direct-to-DVD movies, but it's a roll of the dice to think they will go see Wonder Woman or Ant Man.

 

[mclay18]

What I'm impressed with is that Animal Logic has done an impressive job with the animation. You can clearly tell it's a big budgeted animated picture in terms of lighting and details in the background and characters... so far removed from the DTV and TV animation of Lego characters.

 

[Pink Ranger]

I bet the merch for this is going to be ridiculous. This is one of my most anticipated movies next year.

Yeah, I think Lego and WB are each buying a new vault to store all their cash in, lol.

Unlike other kids properties, the toys for this movie can basically be made from existing molds and designs, Lego being what it is. They just have to be recoloured and branded with the "From the Lego Movie" or whatever.

Assuming the movie is at least pretty good, this entire franchise could be a walking ATM for all involved.

 

[terry78]

And isn't that what it's all about?

 

[Pink Ranger]

And isn't that what it's all about?

This has nothing to do with the Hokey Pokey!

 

[The Guard]

I HAD vaguely 1980s Spaceman. He was the only blue astronaut I had at that time, the others were yellow, red and white, so he was the mission commander.

As did I. I had Vaguely Robin Hood-like archer as well.

 

[Pink Ranger]

I even had some of the old Fabuland characters. I used those as aliens.

Lego should bring back the Fabuland sub-brand, the minifigures if nothing else.

 

[jacobed]

I love how the 1980's Spaceman's helmet is broken. That was always the first part of those dumb things that would break. Amazing detail

 

[Lencho01]

Part of me feels this casting was done on purpose...

Cobie Smulders to Play Wonder Woman… in ‘The Lego Movie’ [Comic-Con 2013]

 

[jmc]

I'm not gonna lie, I actually went out and bought some Lego after I watched this trailer. Forgot how long it takes to build the model!

 

[terry78]

Tatum and Hill as Supes and GL? Fantastic.

 

[mclay18]

I was hoping someone else would voice Superman... instead of Tatum. *shudder*

But Cobie getting cast as the voice of Wonder Woman? Yeah, I think they did that in tribute of Whedon's canned WW film.

 

[Lencho01]

http://io9.com/is-the-lego-movie-really-the-best-film-ever-signs-poin-852631767

Charlie Jane Anders Today 4:15pm 6,637 19

Is The LEGO Movie really the best film ever? Signs point to yes!

We saw some wild and crazy promo footage from the LEGO Movie — and directors Chris Miller and Phil Lord told us they want this movie to feel like a LEGO fan film that's just somehow gotten a "ton of money."

The LEGO Movie is part-CGI and part actual real LEGO bricks in stop-motion, and Lord and Miller told the audience they absolutely do not want you to be able to tell which is which.

We didn't exactly see new footage from the LEGO Movie, but we did see a hilarious "audition" video in which the main character Emmett, the female lead Wildstyle and Batman are all trying out for roles in the film. But Batman is too busy texting on his Bat-phone to bother to audition — and he's not even willing to say "I'm Batman," until Superman pops up and says he's willing to be in the movie. Also, when Wildstyle beats up a bunch of robots, she shouts out which parts of them she's kicking: "groin, groin, neck, neck, groin, space between eyes and neck."

Also we see Bad Cop auditioning — but then he wants to play both good cop and bad cop, and this is a problem.

And then LEGO versions of both Lord and Miller have to audition to direct their own movie, and the evil Lord Business (Will Ferrell) starts messing with them, telling them their faces need to be different and they suck.

Vitruvious (Morgan Freeman) shows up to read his big heroic monologue about destiny but he can't find his place in the cue cards, which are lego cue cards of course. And then Morgan Freeman tries to learn how to talk like Batman.

There are a ton of LEGO cameos in this film, many of which the film-makers couldn't reveal. (And host Chris Hardwick joked that this film is reuniting the Human Centipede cast for a LEGO Human Centipede.) But they did mention that Channing Tatum is Superman, Jonah Hill is Green Lantern — and Cobie Smulders is "the first film incarnation of Wonder Woman." When they said that, the crowd went nuts.

The whole point of this film is capturing how kids play with LEGO. Producer Dan Lin said they had a fan contest and invited people to make short LEGO films, and some of that stuff made it into the film.

Also, in this movie, everything is LEGO. Said Miller, "The explosions are LEGO, the water is LEGO undulating, everything is processed LEGO pieces, it's crazy." Miller insisted they had to have a classic LEGO space character in the film as one of the main characters, because he grew up playing with Space Village — and in fact, Miller's mom found the Space Village set he had as a kid and sent it to them, so Miller's childhood LEGO set is in the movie.

 

[terry78]

I was hoping someone else would voice Superman... instead of Tatum. *shudder*

But Cobie getting cast as the voice of Wonder Woman? Yeah, I think they did that in tribute of Whedon's canned WW film.

They got Will Arnett for Batman so they're kind of doing a tongue in cheek thing with the casting.

 

[MrMaooz]

New Trailer in 3 days!

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[DarkSovereignty]

This better not be more of your speculation like in the Godzilla thread, moose. Or there's gon be lynchin'

 

[MrMaooz]

It says in the video...

 

[DarkSovereignty]

Trailer for a trailer? Aint nobody got time for that

 

[Drizzle]

This whole time I've been trying to figure out what this movie reminded me of, and I finally got it: It's like a PG version of the Imaginationland episodes of South Park.

 

[terry78]

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The humor really reminds me of Clone High now.