‘The LEGO Movie 2’ Is Apparently A “Big Musical” Filled With “Space Action”
The deranged beauty ofThe LEGO Moviewas that it could be anything it wanted to be, existing in a universe where the only borders were the limits of a child’s imagination. Rather than feel like a commercial, it felt like a tribute to the limitless possibilities of playtime – it was unafraid to jumble genres, blending action and comedy and on-point satire into a mixture that had absolutely no right to work. But it did.
So when the director ofThe LEGO Batman Moviesays thatThe LEGO Movie Sequelwill be a musical and a “space action movie,” all you really can do is nod and think “Sure, okay.”
Chris McKay, who was the animation supervisor and co-director onThe LEGO Moviebefore taking the helm onThe LEGO Batman Movie, was a guest on theShanlian On Batmanpodcast (viaHeroic Hollywood) and he spoke about the behind-the-scenes development of the sequel:
The firstLEGO Moviewasn’t a musical, but it did make wonderful use of the very catchy, Oscar-nominated theme song “Everything is Awesome,” which begins the film as a brutal, satiric riff on society’s inability to think critically and evolves into a tribute to teamwork and creativity as time goes on. You still hear that song all the time (an orchestrated version of it played during the Academy Awards last night!), so it’s easy to see the appeal in going full musical. If people really liked oneLEGO Moviesong, then surely they’ll like many more?
And of course,The LEGO Moviealso featured Batman’s hilarious theme song, which features lyrics like “Darkness, no parents…“The LEGO Batman Moviealso gave the Dark Knight a very silly musical number:
This news comes to us not long after it was revealed thatthere have been some behind-the-scenes shake-upsonThe LEGO Movie Sequel, withTrollsdirector Mike Mitchell replacing Rob Schrab at the helm of the whole operation. Matt Fogel also reportedly wrote the most recent draft of the screenplay, working on a script previously handled by Raphael Bob-Waksberg, who had rewritten Chris Miller and Phil Lord (who wrote and directed the first movie).
The LEGO Moviewas such a pleasant surprise, a pitch-perfect balancing act of elements that had no right to work.The LEGO Batman Movie, while not quite as sturdy,was still full of its own special charms. Hopefully,The LEGO Movie Sequel, a musical full of space action, will be worth the wait.
