Early last weekit was announcedthatCloudy With a Chance of MeatballsdirectorsPhil LordandChris Millerwould be writing and directing Warner Bros'Legomovie. I'm excited by this news because Lord and Miller are two incredibly creative individuals and I knew they had a unique take on aLegomovie that would be pretty cool to see. Well, that definitely seems to be the case, asColliderspoke withPhil Lordand got the lowdown on what they're planning for it. Essentially, they're making a"super large scale brick film,"like one ofthose YouTube Lego moviesbut on a feature scale using hyper stop-motion. Sounds pretty awesome, no?
It was reported originally that Lord and Miller created a proposal that won over both the Warner Bros execs and the Lego execs. Lord explains:"Basically we came up with a treatment that was about a40-page crazy treatmentwith a lot of images and stuff and that got everybody excited and then we were off to the races trying to make a deal for the last four months."But what made their presentation so unique? What will their Lego movie look like? Well, he doesn't explain the complete concept infull, but this is what Lord reveals:
"We always sparked to the idea that you could make asuper large scale brick film. Have you seen those brick films online? There's a zillion of them. People literally make them in their basements with little Lego mini-figs and they build elaborate sets and they range from being like the most low production value to some of them people have spent years on and they look beautiful and they're really intricately detailed.
And we kept thinking, gosh there's got to be a way to take… if somebody wants to make a Lego movie they should make one of those on an enormous scale where you could actually buildenormous, beautiful Lego setsand 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."
Nowthatsounds pretty damn cool, but it doesn't top there. Lord explains that Lego wants"to make asuper high qualityproduct. They want to make something that not only appeals to young kids but also appeals to families and grown-ups and people like you and me who just like to go see movies."If you've seenCloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, you certainly know these two are capable of developing a great film like that, plus this Lego concept just sounds totally awesome anyway. Lord continues:
"I don't know we're exactly are going to execute it but I would say the vast majority of the film takes place in animmersive all-Lego environment. 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 ofanimated Legos. And our goal was to make it look like a super charged stop-motion. Something like ifMichael Bay kidnapped Henry Selickto make a movie for him."
Okay, I want to see this rightnow, that sounds incredible! It kind of reminds me of a mix of thatPixels viral videoand theYouTube Lego movies, but on a massive scale. There can never be enough stop-motion movies anyway and I'd love to see them just go all-out creatively with this in every sense. Unfortunately, from the interview, it sounds like Lord and Miller are still gearing up to start shooting their R-rated21 Jump Streetfor Sony first before they get to thisLegomovie. So it will probably be a few years until we see this, but I'm really liking the concept so far and I can't wait to see what this looks like finished. Bring it on!Thoughts?
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