The spin-off from 2014's The Lego Movie will be released in February 2017 The new trailer for The Lego Batman Movie has been released. The film is a spin-off from 2014’s The Lego Movie, and features the voice of Will Arnett as the eponymous protagonist, as well as Zach Galifianakis (The Joker), Michael Cera (Robin), Rosario Dawson (Batgirl), and Ralph Fiennes (Alfred Pennyworth). Mariah Carey will also lend her voice to proceedings, playing the role of the Mayor of Gotham City. The film is scheduled for a release date of February 10, 2017, and a new trailer – the third teaser to be released so far – for the film was unveiled over the weekend at Comic-Con in San Diego. Watch the trailer below. The Lego Batman Movie is the first of three Lego-based films in the works. It will be followed by Ninjago, a Ninja-themed spin-off which will arrive on September 22, 2017, and then The Lego Movie Sequel, which is due on May 8, 2018. Released in 2014, The Lego Movie was a surprise smash for Warner Bros, raking in more than $468million (£301million) at the box office worldwide.
Directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s The LEGO Movie was a surprise critical/commercial hit for Warner Bros. Pictures and WB Animation back in 2014. Aiming to capitalize on the film’s breakout success, WB is moving forward with several new LEGO franchise installments, all of which are also being produced (and, in the case of The LEGO Movie Sequel, co-written) by Lord and Miller. First in line is the LEGO Movie spinoff, The LEGO Batman Movie, featuring the Will Arnett-voiced LEGO-ized version of the Caped Crusader. WB had previously released a pair of teaser trailers for The LEGO Batman Movie that riff on the eponymous superhero’s personality quirks and pop culture legacy, but without revealing anything about the film’s plot in the process. However, during WB’s Hall H panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2016, a more plot-oriented LEGO Batman Movie theatrical preview was unveiled at last. That LEGO Batman Movie Comic-Con trailer is now online too, for everyone who’s not in Hall H to see.
You can watch the Comic-Con trailer for LEGO Batman Movie above, then read the official synopsis below: In the irreverent spirit of fun that made “The LEGO® Movie” a worldwide phenomenon, the self-described leading man of that ensemble – LEGO Batman – stars in his own big-screen adventure. But there are big changes brewing in Gotham, and if he wants to save the city from The Joker’s hostile takeover, Batman may have to drop the lone vigilante thing, try to work with others and maybe, just maybe, learn to lighten up. The LEGO Batman Movie Comic-Con trailer focuses on what looks to be a very funny relationship between Batman and Robin (Arnett’s Arrested Development costar, Michael Cera) in the film. However, it’s also known that Batman’s relationships with Batgirl (Rosario Dawson) and Alfred (Ralph Fiennes) – the latter of which also appears in the new trailer – will be put under the microscope in this new animated movie too. Meanwhile, The Joker (glimpsed briefly in the Comic-Con preview) is being brought to life by Zach Galifianakis in LEGO-animated form.
Seth Grahame-Smith (Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter) wrote The LEGO Batman Movie, with LEGO Movie animation co-director Chris McKay calling the shots. Judging by the Comic-Con trailer, this LEGO spinoff will strive to balance kid-friendly jokes, visual gags and action/comedy with humor geared more towards an adult audience – something The LEGO Movie was quite successful at. Whether or not LEGO Batman Movie will be equally successful (or sophisticated) in that regard, remains to be seen. NEXT: The LEGO Batman Movie Comic-Con Poster The LEGO Batman Movie opens in U.S. theaters on February 10th, 2017, followed by Ninjago on September 22nd, 2017 and The LEGO Movie Sequel on February 8th, 2019. Source: Warner Bros. PicturesSilas Lesnick: The LEGO Movie Sequel is Officially Set for May 26, 2017! Comingsoon.net, , abgerufen am (englisch). Batman has been in need of a great unburdening. It became necessary after Christopher Nolan's trilogy posited the Caped Crusader as a hulking avatar of turn-of-the-millennium anxiety.
And it grew even more urgent after the drudgery of Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice, which was like chasing the heaviest meal of your life with a fully loaded, twice-baked potato. Over the last 50 years, Batman has crossed the spectrum from the campy, freewheeling POW! of the 1966 TV version to a grim-faced, gravel-voiced bulwark against festering corruption, urban blight, and existential malaise. Only the Joel Schumacher versions, Batman Forever and Batman & Robin, tried to Batusi in the other direction, but the backlash only catapulted the hero further into darkness. In the exceedingly busy world of 2014's The LEGO Movie, Batman languished several names down the cast list, serving as the super-cool boyfriend standing between its dimwitted hero and the Master Builder of his dreams. But it advanced one small, important insight: Batman had become kind of a self-obsessed jerk and wouldn't it be funny to point this out to an audience that blithely accepted him as the hero of our times?
As voiced by Will Arnett, Batman was re-conceived as a variation on other Arnett characters like Devon Banks on 30 Rock or Gob on Arrested Development, masking insecurity and ignorance with thundering arrogance and bravado. The LEGO Batman Movie is perhaps the best possible thing that could have happened to Batman and to DC, which has suffered for its humorlessness as Marvel movies have playfully cracked wise. In the spirit of the first movie — and of the act of playing with LEGOs themselves — the freedom to deconstruct and rebuild outside conventional parameters has the effect of liberating Batman, making him fun and self-deprecating again. In fact, the arc of the story itself feels like a gradual unwinding of the clock, taking him from a surly, joyless echo in the Batcave to someone with the humility to be a team player. The self-deprecation starts before the Warner Brothers logo even appears. "All important movies start with a black screen," snarls Batman in the voiceover, primed to add another world-saving adventure to his mythological résumé.
Once he does appear, however, the film etches a sad portrait of superhero bachelordom, with Batman as a Charles Foster Kane type who slumps home to an empty Xanadu and eats microwaved lobster thermidor in front of Jerry Maguire (which he takes as a comedy). With Gotham City once again under attack by the Joker (Zach Galifianakis) — and a wealth of major and minor villains in the Batman catalog, on top of appearances by the Eye of Sauron and other off-brand nemeses — the Caped Crusader can barely hide his boredom behind his mask. When the threat gets overwhelming, he reluctantly learns to work with a team that includes his devoted butler Alfred (Ralph Fiennes), his adopted son Dick Grayson (Michael Cera), and the glamorous new police commissioner Barbara Gordon (Rosario Dawson). The first LEGO Movie turned a philosophical battle over the blocks themselves — are they better as meticulous, step-by-step model construction or a playground of creativity? — into a metaphor for the pleasures of nonconformity and free discovery.
With that matter resolved, The LEGO Batman Movie doesn't have to fuss over the rules, leaving director Chris McKay (Robot Chicken) and his battery of screenwriters to move the fake-plastic pieces around the board without holding anything sacrosanct. Figures from The Lords of the Rings and The Wizard of Oz can, indeed, wriggle around in the same cinematic space as DC legends because the children who accumulate these toys have no reservations about it. The nonstop flurry of gags and references, on top of the hectic business of Gotham City literally breaking in two, is mostly a strength, especially for those steeped in comics and pop culture knowledge. The consequence is a structural looseness that would drive Will Ferrell's father in The LEGO Movie crazy, though any flabbiness resulting from the devil-may-care storytelling is a fair trade-off for a film so enthusiastic about screwing around. Batman desperately needed to loosen up and have a good time, and the the film throws a rager of a party around him.