The LEGO Movie 2 / Warner Bros.' The LEGO Movie 2 has been delayed until 2019. The LEGO Movie 2 is now set for February 8, 2019. The other two LEGO movies from Warner Bros.—LEGO Batman and LEGO Ninjago—will still be released on February 10, 2017 and September 22, 2017, respectively. Additionally, BoJack Horseman creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg has been hired to re-write The LEGO Movie 2's script. Phil Lord and Christopher Lord, who directed the first film, wrote the first draft of the script, Variety reported. Being busy at work on the Star Wars Han Solo spinoff film, the studio "opted to get a fresh take on the script." It'll be Bob-Waksberg's time writing for a film—but he's no stranger to television, with credits on Adult Hospital and Save Me. The third season of BoJack Horseman is slated to debut on July 22. Rob Schrab, who has worked on television shows like Community, The Mindy Project, and Parks and Recreation, will direct The LEGO Movie 2, with Lord and Miller producing alongside Dan Lin and Roy Lee.
In 2015, Schrab hinted that new characters—including Doctor Who—could appear in the LEGO sequel. Nicole is a freelance writer for IGN. You can follow her on Twitter. Everything will be totally awesome again When you get a sequel The LEGO Movie, the film you couldn’t believe was as good as it was, the film you couldn’t believe you loved as much as you did, the film that placed a song in your head that will live there forever and start playing the second you hear the word “awesome,” now has a script for it’s much anticipated follow-up. One of the film’s co-writers, Chris Miller, tweeted out that the first draft is complete and it has been passed in. Just turned in the official first draft of LEGO Movie 2. — Chris Miller (@chrizmillr) November 25, 2015 Miller is writing the sequel with his creative partner, Phil Lord. The two wrote and directed the first film, but Rob Schrab (Community) will direct the sequel instead. Miller and Lord are incredibly active these days, with some of their workload including being executive producers on the other LEGO movies, The LEGO Batman Movie (2017) and the ninja-themed Ninjago (2016), writing the Han Solo anthology movie, and producing Fox’s Last Man On Earth.
What can we expect from the LEGO Movie sequel? Well, Miller and Lord have already talked about wanting to have more female characters, and Miller told Empire the film will take place four years later (fitting since it will open in 2018, four years after the first movie) and might have Emmet suffering from an existential crisis that comes from traveling to an alternate dimension. What would you like to see from the sequel? Construct your thoughts in our comments section below. Everything is awesome for Raphael Bob-Waksberg. The creator of Netflix’s Bojack Horseman has been tapped for rewrites on The Lego Movie Sequel, EW has learned. This marks Waksberg’s first foray in the film space since 2013’s The Exquisite Corpse Project. He previously wrote an episode of Save Me for NBC and played a reporter in Adult Swim’s Childrens Hospital. Phil Lord and Chris Miller penned the original draft of The Lego Movie Sequel, but the dynamic duo behind the Jump Street films and The Last Man on Earth are now working on the Star Wars prequel about a young Han Solo.
Both are scheduled to appear for this month’s Star Wars Celebration Europe to promote the project. Rob Schrab (Community) will helm The Lego Movie Sequel, which is currently scheduled for release on Feb. 8, 2019. The Lego Batman Movie, featuring the voice of Will Arnett’s Caped Crusader, will hit theaters before that on Feb. 10, 2017, with The Lego Ninjago Movie following shortly after on Sep. 22, 2017. Waksberg is represented by CAA. His attorney is Jeff Endlich and managers are Peter Principato and Joel Zadak at Principato-Young Entertainment. Variety was the first to report the news of his involvement.‘The Lego Movie Sequel’ Script Being Rewritten by ‘BoJack Horseman’ Creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg Sounds like “” is going to the business factory. “BoJack Horseman” creator has been hired to rewrite the animated comedy’s script, the first draft of which was written by producers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, who directed the first film. (Everything isn’t awesome in that one, apparently.)
Will Arnett’s Dark Knight is a preening braggart with a fragile ego who basks in public adulation then returns to his mansion to eat microwaved lobster and watch Jerry Maguire alone. There are winking references to 80-odd years of Batman history, but they’re all in service to a coherent, plausible, and profoundly unsympathetic portrayal of the character. For the duration of that joke-packed first act, it’s possible to believe that the miracle of The Lego Movie is repeating itself. That 2014 phenomenon sprung from the unusually deep thematic tension at the heart of Lego (a brand described by some experts, implausibly, as “the world’s most powerful”): the opposition between making a cool, imaginative structure through the improvisatory agglomeration of blocks and making an intricate model of the Millennium Falcon by following the instructions. Lego is a brand that is increasingly tied up in its own ambivalent relationship to other brands and to the way in which corporate-owned intellectual-property franchises are colonizing increasingly vast swaths of human consciousness.
This thematic opposition, extraordinarily, was at the crux of The Lego Movie, which, in its casual smashing together of figures from across the pop monoculture, felt like actual childhood play. It went so deep into the Hellmouth of licensing that its head emerged, smiling cheerfully, on the other side. It was less a story than a jailbreak. Batman, the breakout character of The Lego Movie, has a dialectic of his own: He’s a fascist, and like all fascists, he periodically crosses the line into camp. (For every brooding Tim Burton goth opus, there’s a Joel Schumacher to come along and draw nipples on the costume.) The Lego Movie’s refreshingly contemporary insight into the Caped Crusader was that a man who’d spent his life striving to achieve physical and mental perfection in order to perform solitary acts of redemptive violence would almost certainly be a narcissistic asshole. Having had that insight (and having secured permission from the Time Warner licensing czars to deploy it), the movie had the wit to position Batman not as the protagonist but as a romantic rival to its regular-Joe hero.
Lego Batman was an asshole at the beginning of The Lego Movie and an asshole at the end, and the movie’s love plot was basically “How can we get him out of the way?” The Lego Batman Movie can’t do that because, by law, every movie has to have a protagonist who goes through an emotional arc, even a movie about Batman in which Batman is made out of Lego. Which is why that genuinely hilarious first act degenerates into a by-the-numbers superhero movie in which Lego Batman finally learns to shed his defensive exterior and open himself up to the people who care about him. The overplotted second act revolves around “the Phantom Zone,” a giant portal in the sky. Maybe this is a joke about how every superhero movie now revolves around a giant portal in the sky, but if so, it’s an extremely subtle joke, and you’re still watching a boring-ass movie about a giant portal in the sky. And throughout, many of the incidental pleasures from Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s original film are diminished.