Following the blockbuster success ofThe LEGO Moviein 2014, Warner Bros. green lit two spin-offs,The LEGO Batman Movie, which hit theaters earlier this month and is already a box office hit with $226.2 million worldwide, andNinjago, which arrives on September 22. After that, fans have a long wait untilLEGO Movie 2, which is slated for release on August 21, 2025, but today we have new details about the story.Chris McKay, who directedThe LEGO Batman Movieand producesThe LEGO Movie Sequel, reveals this story is set in outer space. Here’s what the director had to say in a recent interview.
“LEGO 2is going to be this big musical and space action movie. They need a lot of the writing, a lot of development, not only with script development, but development with songwriters. So it was very ambitious to get that movie out.”
Chris McKay, who was originally set to directThe LEGO Movie Sequelbefore he was moved over toThe LEGO Batman Movie, revealed on theShanlian On Batman Podcastthese first details about the space action aspects of this sequel. Unfortunately, he wouldn’t shed more light on this outer space element, but it could tie into the Spaceman Benny character fromThe LEGO Movie, who was voiced byCharlie Day, but that is only speculation at this point. Here’s whatChris McKayhad to say about how quickly they moved forward withLEGO Movie 2.
“The critics likedThe LEGO Movie, audiences liked it, then we started talking about sequels and obviously everyone wanted to doLEGO 2.”
Back in 2015, then-directorRob Schrabhinted that Warner Bros. is working out a deal with BBC that would bring the beloved TV characterDoctor WhotoThe LEGO Movie Sequel, which followed the character’s appearance in theLEGO Dimensionsvideo game. We never got confirmation thatDoctor Whowill appear on this sequel, butRob Schrabwould later leave the project due to creative differences. Earlier this month,Mike Mitchell, who directed last year’s hit animated musical comedyTrolls, stepped in to direct.
Phil Lord and Chris Miller, who directed both21and22 Jump Street, directedThe Lego Movieand wroteThe Lego Movie Sequel, but because they decided to take the gig directing theHan Solospin-off for Disney and Lucasfilm, they didn’t have time to direct this sequel.BoJack HorsemancreatorRaphael Bob-Waksbergalso did a rewrite on the script. Warner Bros. has yet to confirm which cast members fromThe LEGO Moviewill return forThe Lego Movie Sequel, and with just under two years until it hits theaters, we may not get more updates for quite some time.
