The idea of a Lego-based movie sounds pretty stupid if you ask me, but it seems with Warner Bros. putting 21 Jump Street helmers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller in charge of the production the right pieces are coming together to make it something worth looking out for.
Today Variety reports Chris Pratt (Moneyball, “Parks and Recreation”) has joined what is being referred to as Lego: The Piece of Resistance and will voice the film’s lead character Emmet, an ordinary, law-abiding, Lego mini-figure who is mistaken for the most extraordinary MasterBuilder. He’s drafted into a fellowship of strangers on a quest to stop an evil tyrant from gluing the universe together.
It sounds as if part of this “fellowship of strangers” (what I assume will be an in-joke parodying The Lord of the Rings) will be both Batman and Superman as Will Arnett will voice The Dark Knight and Lord and Miller are attempting to woo their 21 Jump Street star, Channing Tatum, to play the Man of Steel.
Tatum’s involvement, however, appears to depend on his schedule, which includes Roland Emmerich’s White House Down, Bennett Miller’s Foxcatcher, Jupiter Ascending for the Wachowski siblings and a 21 Jump Street sequel.
Adult Swim’s Chris McKay (“Robot Chicken”) will serve as co-director on the pic, which will be a CG/live-action hybrid and is already set for a February 28, 2014 release. 80% of it, however, is expected to be animated. Hotel Transylvania scripters Dan and Kevin Hageman wrote the original screenplay.
