Many of you would agree that THE LEGO MOVIE was one of the best movies of the year and are just as excited as we are about the upcoming the LEGO cinematic universe expansion. We are getting LEGO NINJAGO and THE LEGO MOVIE 2 eventually; but it’s THE LEGO BATMAN MOVIE spinoff that has me most excited. THE LEGO MOVIE writer-directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller, who will be serving as producers on LEGO BATMAN, recently revealed some details about upcoming movies and it's all good news.
Speaking to Empire, they talked about how they would handle the vast history of the caped crusader:
Miller: “Rest assured that every era of Batman filmmaking will be acknowledged. There have been so many interpretations of Batman and there is so much to play with there. There are 40 versions of his origin story alone.”
That was my first concern with this project, since we have seen the Batman story so many times, would the only difference here be the humor and LEGO style? It sounds like they could be using that mindset to deliver an entertaining parody of everything we have seen for the character.
Lord & Miller also revealed that they’re planning to have their LEGO movies in a shared Avengers-like universe:
Miller: “The thing is about these movies is that each of them have their own tone and their own voice. We’re doing this Ninjago one with Charlie Bean, we’re working on the Batman one, and each one of them feels like its own movie, but obviously they all exist in the universe that the Lego movie existed in, and so finding that balance has been part of the trick.”
Lord: “It’s like we started with The Avengers and now we’re going to spin off and explore the different worlds, then come back.”
With NINJAGO due out in 2016, THE LEGO BATMAN MOVIE following in 2017, and then THE LEGO MOVIE 2 in 2018, which title are you most looking forward to?