Have we met our quota of toy movies yet? You’ve got your Barbie, your already-existing G.I. Joes, your Transformers and Rainbow Brite, and, yes, The Lego Movie and its attending sequels/spinoffs. And yet, this is not enough. More content must flow. And so comes the news that there are not one but three more Lego movies in the works—this time, live-action flicks with three acclaimed directors attached. Presumably they are not just films about the pain of stepping on a Lego while barefoot.
Deadline reports that Patty Jenkins (Wonder Woman), Joe Cornish (Attack the Block), and Jake Kasdan (Jumanji: The Next Level) are each set to make a Lego film.
Kasdan’s film has a screenplay by Andrew Mogel and Jarrad Paul (both of Yes Man and The Grinder) which is based on an idea (and earlier draft) by Matt Mider and Kevin Burrows (writers of The Package). Jenkins co-wrote her movie with Geoff Johns, formerly of DC Entertainment. And as for Cornish, Deadline says he “is rewriting from a draft by Heather Anne Campbell (Rick & Morty, One Punch Man), which was off a treatment by Simon Rich (Man Seeking Woman, Miracle Workers).” Lots of cooks in these Lego kitchens.
No casting or release dates have been announced for these live-action Lego bricktaculars. We can only hope that everything will be awesome eventually.
