Live-Action LEGO Movie In 2014

[Lustful Butchery]

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=84197

Warner Bros. is working with Australian-based animation company Animal Logic (Happy Feet, Legend of the Guardians) to move forward with a live action-animated hybrid movie based on the popular LEGO building blocks with plans for a 2014 release. With an incentive from the Australian government and the state of New South Wales to make the movie entirely on the continent, the new movie will be an action-adventure set in a world made up of LEGOs with casting for the live action actors starting in January.

The project has been in development at Warner Bros for over three years when the studio began working with the LEGO Company on developing a family comedy written by Dan and Kevin Hageman, and then brought on Phil Lord and Chris Miller (Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs) to write and direct in 2010. They recently brought "Robot Chicken" stop-motion director Chris McKay on as a co-director for LEGO under Lord and Miller.

Working closely with the Danish company--LEGO VP of licensing and entertainment, Jill Wilfert, is one of the executive producers along with Seanne Winslow of Lin Pictures--the film will continue the relationship between Warner Bros. and LEGO that has produced numerous toys and videogames based on Warner Bros. properties including Batman and Harry Potter. It was announced at Comic-Con that LEGO will have access to all of DC Entertainment's comic book characters and stories to launch DC Universe figures and playsets starting in January, which will include Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman and others.

Bring it on! :buttrock:

 

[Savior Den-o]

So, it's gonna be a hour long version of the Lego Cutscenes you see in the games?

 

[Bigdog]

How about they make a Bionicle film on par with Avatar?Throw in random humans who come from another planet and crashland and have the humans as a minor part of the story.

That seems like the only story that Lego has which could be remotely successful other than their replacement toyline which airs or had aired on Nicktoons.

You could easily retell the first two years of the Bionicle story into a live action sci-fi film on the marks of Alien crossed with Predator crossed with the Immortals film.

 

[DekaThunder Rider]

So, it's gonna be a hour long version of the Lego Cutscenes you see in the games?

I wonder if they`ll keep the gibberish from those scenes and not have any actual dialouge?


Probably not,although it would be amusing

 

[Artic_Rival]

How about they make a Bionicle film on par with Avatar?Throw in random humans who come from another planet and crashland and have the humans as a minor part of the story.

That's the entire reason why they don't want to make the Bionicle film. They can't have humans in the film because the world of Bionicle doesn't allow humans to exist.

 

[ReD-X]

stop motion the movie codename lego!

 

[Bigdog]

That's the entire reason why they don't want to make the Bionicle film. They can't have humans in the film because the world of Bionicle doesn't allow humans to exist.

Who cares about canon as far as Hollywood is concerned. They've screwed around with stories and in some cases have diverged far from the source material.

How doesn't the world of Bionicle not let people exist exactly? They can just do it Avatar-style and have the people embody clones of the Toa to takeover the planet. Main lead gets a crush on real blue Toa , and the five others begin to love the world so much they turn on the humans. All for the element of protodermis that powers their ships.

A Bionicle film with humans could work, but it would have to be done in a way where it doesn't piss fans off which is a hard thing to not do in this case. But it could work. They would have to make it a space opera-like film.