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The Lego Batman Movie (Blu-ray Review) – Has the Caped Crusader gone a little gay?

June 18, 2017 By Tim Isaac 1 Comment

Starring: Will Arnett, Michael Cera, Rosario Dawson, Zach Galifianakis, Ralph Fiennes
Director: Chris McKay
Running Time: 104 mins
Certificate: U
Release Date: June 19th 2017 (UK)

The Lego Movie was a surprise to many – a film that when it was announced sounded like such a bad idea turned out to be one of the funniest, most original animated movies of the last few years, and a major hit to boost. Warner Bros. suddenly realised they had the potential for something much bigger, so rather than just putting a sequel in the works, they started working on spin-offs, including a Ninjago movie and The Lego Batman Movie.

We first met the Lego version of Batman (Will Arnett) in The Lego Movie – an arrogant vigilante convinced of his own greatness and jealous of the praise other superheroes get. He starts out the same here, saving Gotham City from The Joker and a Rogues Gallery of villains, and confident about how awesome everyone thinks he is. However, he’s also obsessed with doing things alone, with the result that when he’s back at Wayne Manor, he only has his butler Alfred (Ralph Fiennes) for company. Batman thinks that for the best, but it may be because he’s afraid of having a family. [Read more…]

Lego Batman Is Getting His Own Movie

October 11, 2014 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

In The Lego Movie, Batman was very funny, but he was also a bit of a douche. However Warner still reckons he’s a good character to base a movie around, as it’s been announced that he’s getting his own spinoff. Hopefully the film will teach him to be a bit less arrogant.

It’s also been revealed that the movie has been put on the fast track, seemingly because they’ve realised it’ll take longer to get The Lego Movie 2 on the big screen that the May 26th, 2017 release date it’s previously been given. Lego Batman may now take over that release date, with the proper sequel coming sometime later.

Will Arnett is all set to voice Batman once more, with director Chris McKay – who was previously set to direct The Lego Movie 2 – helming the movie. Seth Grahame-Smith will write the script.

It means that is everything works out, Ben Affleck could have some competition for Batman movie dominance.

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ACTORS: Will Arnett DIRECTORS: Chris McKay FILMS: Lego Batman

Lego Movie Sequel Gets Robot Chicken Director Chris McKay

March 12, 2014 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Phil Lord and Chris Miller are continuing their run of starting off successful animated franchises, before heading off and leaving the sequels to someone else. After helming Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs, they left part two to Cody Cameron and Kris Pearn. Now, following the massive success of The Lego Movie, it’ll be Chris McKay taking over the directing reigns for the sequel, according to Deadline.

It’s perhaps not surprising there’s been a changeover as Miller and Lord are very busy people, and Warner wants to get going on the Lego Movie follow-up as soon as humanly possible, having already set a May 26th, 2017 release date. That may seem a long way away, but it’s actually not that long in animation terms.

Jared Stern (The Internship) and Michelle Morgan (Nancy Drew) are writing the script, and Miller and Lord will still be around as producers. Chris McKay previously directed animated TV shows such as Robot Chicken, Moral Orel and Titan Maxium.

Warner is also developing a Lego Ninjago movie, but it’s still not known when we might see that.

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DIRECTORS: Chris McKay, Phil Lord, Chris Miller FILMS: The Lego Movie 2, The Lego Movie

Lego Movie Gets The Greenlight

November 14, 2011 By Movie Muser Leave a Comment

While a couple of years ago Hollywood had big plans to turn virtually every toy and game into a movie, surprisingly few have moved forward, partly due to the realisation that it’s tough to turn a plotless toy into a worthwhile movie.

However at least one has got the greenlight, as Variety reports that Warner Bros has given the greenlight to the Lego film that’s been in development. The live-action/CGI hybrid movie will be a family comedy based on the popular building blocks, and takes place in the magical land of Lego. No further plot details have been released at this time, but it’ll be interesting to discover how they’re fitting in the concept of Lego blocks into the film and whether the inhabitants of the island are the little Lego men (and if they are, how they’re going to make that not seem silly).

More details about the movie, which is likely to be 80% animated, should be released later this week, and casting is set to begin in January (although work of the CGI will begin pretty much immediately). Warner Bros. is eyeing a 2014 release date for Lego: The Movie, with Robot Chicken’s Chris McKay recently bought on board to co-direct alongside 21 Jump Street duo Phil Lord and Chris Miller.

General movie news courtesy of Movie Muser

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DIRECTORS: Phil Lord, Chris Miller, Chris McKay FILMS: Lego: The Movie