So, we already had a chance to hear that Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller are in charge for directing Warner Bros' LEGO: The Piece of Resistance movie, which is kind of perfect choice, since they make such a good and creative team together.
And, we also know that they “impressed both WB and Lego execs”, or, at least, that was a rumor couple of days ago.
But, today we're here to share some interesting details that Phil Lord revealed in an interview for Collider.
“I don't know how we're exactly going to execute it, but I would say the vast majority of the film takes place in an immersive all-Lego environment.” – Lord said, and continued: “So it's going to star mini-figs and we've created these really cool characters and a really nice character story between these mini-figs. And it's going to take place in a universe that's made entirely out of Lego to the point where if there's water or clouds or like a big explosion, that will be made out of animated Legos.
And our goal was to make it look like a super charged stop-motion. Something like if Michael Bay kidnapped Henry Selick to make a movie for him. We found a way to incorporate all of those worlds into having one uber world basically so that we can include all those kind of classic set pieces that you're used to seeing. We always sparked to the idea that you could make a super large scale brick film. Have you seen those brick films online?
There's a zillion of them…if somebody wants to make a Lego movie they should make one of those on an enormous scale where you could actually build enormous, beautiful Lego sets and put a camera on the deck at mini-fig eye level and bring the kind of bravado that like the contemporary action-adventure film does, but do it on like this micro-scale. So we always sparked to that idea and it was just about trying to crack the character story to carry that.”
However, the LEGO is not some kind of big priority, because Lord and Miller are currently working on 21 Jump Street, an adaptation of the '80s TV series:
“We have a 21 Jump Street coming up that we're going to shoot at the beginning of next year. And that script is being written by Michael Bacall and we're working really hard with him trying to get that ready.”
But, we all must agree that now this sounds awesome, right? And, since Lord also added that: “we're lucky because they give us a lot of creative freedom – the Lego Company did – and so did Warner Brothers”, then we can definitely expect something spectacular, don't you think? One reason more for us to keep an eye on this project, so, make sure you stay tuned!
