There should be some kind of overlap (however small) between Twitch readers and Lego builders, or in my case, Lego employees -- I just got done unloading a hefty shipment at our store outside of Washington D.C.
Well whomever we may be, we will either get rather excited or perplexed with Warner Brothers' decision on going ahead with an animated/live-action feature film based largely in a Lego brick built, mini-fig populated universe.
And why should we be interested in this? Well since since 2010 Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs co-directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller have been on tap to write and direct. With post production on their 21 Jump Street big screen treatment winding up/down, WB has brought in Robot Chicklen's Chris McKay as a third director.
Clearly a family-friendly affair, plot details are still under wraps. Meanwhile animation duties go to the Australia based Animal Logic, the house behind Happy Feet and Guardians of Ga'Hoole. While it has been stated that 80% of the movie will take place in a world built entirely of Lego, it is unlikely that the majority of this will be stop-motion with actual bricks, mini-figs etc. due to the long production time needed to animate such objects. Though with McKay on board I do suspect portions of what we see on screen will indeed be physical bricks, which for someone who made stop-motion Lego films as a kid, is absolutely the selling point of all this. In fact, there is a thriving Lego stop-motion film community. Could we hope to see some the best and brightest somehow employed on the movie? Well that' unlikely, but it'd be a nice gesture to the Lego community at large.
WB plans to release LEGO at some point in 2014. Casting for the live-action portions of the film kick off in January.
Well whomever we may be, we will either get rather excited or perplexed with Warner Brothers' decision on going ahead with an animated/live-action feature film based largely in a Lego brick built, mini-fig populated universe.
And why should we be interested in this? Well since since 2010 Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs co-directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller have been on tap to write and direct. With post production on their 21 Jump Street big screen treatment winding up/down, WB has brought in Robot Chicklen's Chris McKay as a third director.
Clearly a family-friendly affair, plot details are still under wraps. Meanwhile animation duties go to the Australia based Animal Logic, the house behind Happy Feet and Guardians of Ga'Hoole. While it has been stated that 80% of the movie will take place in a world built entirely of Lego, it is unlikely that the majority of this will be stop-motion with actual bricks, mini-figs etc. due to the long production time needed to animate such objects. Though with McKay on board I do suspect portions of what we see on screen will indeed be physical bricks, which for someone who made stop-motion Lego films as a kid, is absolutely the selling point of all this. In fact, there is a thriving Lego stop-motion film community. Could we hope to see some the best and brightest somehow employed on the movie? Well that' unlikely, but it'd be a nice gesture to the Lego community at large.
WB plans to release LEGO at some point in 2014. Casting for the live-action portions of the film kick off in January.
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