Now I’m gonna go watch The LEGO Batman Movie with my daughter for old times’ sake. Like The Godfather Part 2 and the first LEGO Batman Movie, a central theme for the animated sequel would have been an evolution on the family concept. (Slap Happy/Titmouse/Warner) (2018) Smallfoot (2018) The Lego Movie 2: The. We’ll have much more from our interview with McKay closer to the release of The Tomorrow War by Amazon on their Prime Video streaming service on July 2. The Lego Batman Movie (Animal Logic/Warner) (2017) The Lego Ninjago Movie. But original director Chris McKay revealed details for what Lego Batman 2 would have been like had WB retained access to the. (I don’t know about you, but LEGO Fast and Furious sounds amazing to me.) The Lego Batman 2 movie is apparently dead following a rights issue. But maybe there will be a LEGO Fast and Furious or LEGO Jaws or LEGO something that I could possibly work on.” With the rights to LEGO now at Universal, McKay said, “there won’t be a LEGO Batman 2. If you‘re like me and my daughter and the thought that we missed out on The Godfather Part II of LEGO movies sends you into a spiral of despair, you should know this McKay did not close the door on moving back into the world of animation - or even to making a different LEGO movie someday. “I wish there was a way for us to go do that movie,” McKay added, “because that would have been a lot of fun.” He also said the finished draft of the script was “really great.” And Robin, obviously, there was a really great part for Robin. Batman and Superman’s relationship, as well as Batman's relationship to a lot of the other members of the Justice League. It was a story about the Justice League and where Batman was in terms of the Justice League now, and the struggles they were going through, as well as flashing back to how the Justice League came together. The story would have taken place both before and after the events of the first LEGO Batman. I guess if you’re going to make a sequel you might as well take the greatest sequel ever as your inspiration.Īccording to McKay, here’s the specific story they developed: He also compared the structure of the sequel’s plot to - hold on to your Bat-cowls - The Godfather Part Ii. And, in fact, they had finished the draft,” McKay told me. “Yeah, there was a script that Dan Harmon and some of Dan Harmon’s team were working on. This very long introduction is my weirdly personal way of explaining that when I had the chance to interview LEGO Batman Movie director Chris McKay about his new project, the sci-fi movie The Tomorrow War, I would have been derelict in my duty as a journalist - not to mention as a father - if I didn’t at least ask about the LEGO Batman sequel and what had been planned before the project was canceled. According to IMDb, LEGO Batman 2 is supposed to come out in 2022. (who owns the movie rights to Batman) to Universal (who, according to the transitive property of equality, must therefore not own the movie rights to Batman). LEGO Batman 2 became the first and biggest casualty of the LEGO film franchise’s 2020 move from Warner Bros. Maybe not as excited as my daughter, but still, pretty excited. Lego Batman discovers there are big changes brewing in Gotham. So when McKay mentioned in 2018 that work had begun on a sequel, I was really excited. And there was going to be a crossover with a major franchise that can only happen in a LEGO movie.It went like that for years. While I’ve always been more of a Spider-Man fan myself, seeing LEGO Batman through my daughter’s eyes (and seeing it and seeing it and seeing it, over and over) gave me a deeper appreciation for the character, and for that film specifically. Based On The Thrilling Video Game Lego Batman 2 DC super heroes. It was ultimately going to answer the question: How do you become Super-friends. He continued, "It was going to explore Superman and Batman's relationship in a very different way than you've ever seen it portrayed, including Superman's alienation from humanity and how hard it is to truly be friends, real friends, for years. The sequel would've been a quasi Superfriends movie and the structure was going to be a sort of Godfather II kind of thing with Batman and the Justice League facing a modern-day problem, Lex Luthor and OMAC, while at the same time flashing back to the reasons why Batman and the Justice League – and in particular, Superman – have bad blood." In this brilliant and hilarious spin-off of The Lego Movie, Batman defends Gotham City from criminals and supervillains while bonding with a young orphan he. McKay reavled, "We had a really fun script with Dan Harmon and Michael Waldron, wrote a really fun kind of Superfriends. Speaking with UPROXX, director Chris McKay elaborated on what he previously shared for the sequel, noting how the follow-up would have brought in the Justice League and crossed over with another major franchise.
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