#Lego batman movie movie#

did, meaning they can give us a 'Fast & Furious' LEGO movie with characters from all its franchises racing the Toretto family while escaping from Jurassic World. If there is one bright side to all this, it's that Universal now has the opportunity to do for its properties what Warner Bros. lost the film rights to LEGO, which Universal was quick to snap up. They canceled a planned racing movie titled ' The Billion Brick Race,' which was going to be directed by 'Maya and the Three' creator Jorge Gutiérrez, and then Batman got the axe too.Īs McKay told Collider, the reason 'The LEGO Batman Movie' sequel didn't move forward despite a great sounding script is simple: rights issues. began getting cold feet with its LEGO movies. He also described it as being like 'Boogie Nights,' while Waldron revealed the film was inspired by 'Super Friends.' After the financial disappointment of 'The LEGO Ninjago Movie' and 'The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part,' Warner Bros. a story about Batman's relationship to the Justice League (and Superman) now as well as the formative moments of the Justice League (and Batman's relationship with Superman) then.' Plus, the movie is hilarious, and its meta jokes all land really well. Indeed, this is a movie that pokes fun and genuinely criticizes the kind of loner, brooding portrayal of the Caped Crusader we've seen time and time again in films, showing it to be incredibly dumb rather than inspiring and cool. This leads to ' The LEGO Batman Movie' being a rare Batman movie where the titular character has a proper character arc and actually changes by the end of the film, realizing he needs to open up to others and change his loner behavior - not unlike Robert Pattinson's Batman realizing he needs to be a symbol of hope and not just fear. Indeed, this is the first Batman film (until Robert Pattinson's emo Batman) that confronts the idea of Batman as a coping mechanism for a deeply emotionally troubled Bruce Wayne, who has not been able to heal from his parents' deaths.

Nothing Alfred tries to do, even adopting a young kid, can make Bruce come out of his brooding shell. He tries having expensive Lobster Thermidor dinners and watches movies at home, but he finds that nothing satisfies him. It is a spin-off of the 2014 film, The Lego Movie, focusing on Batman, who was previously established in that universe. It is directed by Chris McKay, produced by Roy Lee, Dan Lin, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, and written by Seth Grahame Smith. The problem is he has no idea what to do with himself when not fighting bad guys. The Lego Batman Movie is an American-Danish superhero action comedy film by Warner Animation Group.