Mike Mitchell Is Directing ‘LEGO Movie’ Sequel Trolls and Shrek Forever After helmer Mike Mitchell has signed on as Master Builder for Warner Animation Group’s The LEGO Movie sequel, replacing formerly attached director Rob Schrab. The outgoing director, who wrote the 2006 animated feature Monster House, reportedly left due to creative difference. The sequel is slated for release Feb. 8, 2019 from Warner Bros. Pictures, with animation handled by WAG and Animal Logic. Mitchell’s feature directing credits also include hybrid flicks Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked and The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water; and live-action films Sky High and Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo. His most recent project, DreamWorks Animation’s Trolls, has taken $338 million at the global box office since it opened in November. The colorful family film received four Annie Award nominations, and is up for an Oscar in the Best Original Song category. The LEGO Movie sequel received a first-draft script from original film directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller, with a rewrite by BoJack Horseman creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg and a latest draft tackled by Matt Fogel, who assisted Lord and Miller during the production of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.
Lord and Miller aren’t returning to direct the animated film, but they did write the first draft of the script — and BoJack Horseman creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg will now rewrite it.Below, learn more about The LEGO Movie Sequel rewrite.The Wrap first reported Bob-Waksberg is polishing the script, making this his first time writing a feature film (although it’ll likely just be his first credit, if he’s credited). The report says he’s only “putting on the finishing touches,” claiming Lord and Miller are too busy with the Han Solo film and the millions of other projects they’re working on.Producer Chris McKay (The LEGO Batman Movie), writer Jared Stern (Wreck-It Ralph), and Michelle Morgan (Girl Most Likely) helped crack some of the story before Lord and Miller got to work on the script. They haven’t spilled too many plot details, but Miller has said one non-LEGO character is returning for the sequel:Well I don’t want to give you spoilers but we were really interested in what happens to that boy who’s in the meta story in the first movie when he’s four years older.
When he’s an adolescent how does that change his point of view? And it’s nice to have the characters start in a different place from the first movie. Emmet, for example, was in an existential crisis of having seen another dimension and was questioning the whole point of his existence.A part of the joke of Lord & Miller’s last sequel, 22 Jump Street, is that it is a retread, in many ways, but according to Miller, The LEGO Movie Sequel will have its own personality:There’s a challenge to make each one feel like its own thing. Part of the fun is finding people like Charlie [Bean], who’s doing the Ninjago movie, and Chris McKay who did so much on the first film. Each of them have their own distinct voices and ideas for tone. So it will each have its own personality and not just be, ‘Hey, remember that last movie? Here’s another one just like it!” So that’s been a big challenge but so far it’s been going better than I expected.Warner Bros. recently postponed the sequel.
Originally scheduled for May 18th, 2018, the studio pushed the release date almost a year to February 8th, 2019. The LEGO Movie did incredibly well the first weekend of February, so the delay makes sense. Directing the sequel is Rob Schrab, who’s worked on Community and The Mindy Project. Cool Posts From Around the Web: ZergNet 10 Movies That Took Forever to Make Hear From Hugh Jackman And Patrick Stewart At ‘Logan’ Fan Screening See Things Get Worse In New ‘Alien: Covenant’ Trailer ‘Beauty and the Beast’ Remake Will Include Disney’s First-Ever Gay Moment Tom Hiddleston Spent Days in a Swamp Filming Kong: Skull Island Made some changes from the original project. Hope you guys like it. Everything is awesomeEverything is cool when you're part of a teamEverything is awesome, when we're living our dream Everything is better when we stick togetherSide by side, you and I gonna win forever, let's party foreverWe're the same, I'm like you, you're like me, we're all working in harmony
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