Phil Lord And Chris Miller Talk About Their LEGO Movie For WB

Phil Lord and Chris Miller are the two guys responsible for 'Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs' and they will tackle the big-screen Lego movie for Warner Brothers.  Collider reports that the two won over both the Warner Execs and Lego honchos with their idea.

Lord explains:

"Basically we came up with a treatment that was about a 40-page crazy treatment with a lot of images and stuff and that got everybody excited and then we were off to the races trying to make a deal for the last four months."

He goes on to give just a little detail on this film;

"We always sparked to the idea that you could make a super large scale brick film. Have you seen those brick films online? There's a zillion of them. People literally make them in their basements with little Lego mini-figs and they build elaborate sets and they range from being like the most low production value to some of them people have spent years on and they look beautiful and they're really intricately detailed.

And we kept thinking, gosh there's got to be a way to take… if somebody wants to make a Lego movie they should make one of those on an enormous scale where you could actually build enormous, beautiful Lego sets and put a camera  on the deck at mini-fig eye level and bring the kind of bravado that like the contemporary action-adventure film does, but do it on like this micro-scale. So we always sparked to that idea and it was just about trying to crack the character story to carry that."

He then says that Lego wants a high quality product that will appeal to both children and adults.  This is sounding kind of cool now!  He compares the Lego project a little to Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs and goes on to say this;

"I don't know we're exactly are going to execute it but I would say the vast majority of the film takes place in an immersive all-Lego environment. So it's going to star mini-figs and we've created these really cool characters and a really nice character story between these mini-figs. And it's going to take place in a universe that's made entirely out of Lego to the point where if there's water or clouds or like a big explosion, that will be made out of animated  Legos. And our goal was to make it look like a super charged stop-motion. Something like if Michael Bay  kidnapped Henry Selick to make a movie for him."

Well there you have it, these guys have a huge plan for the Lego movie and they mean business for sure.  We'll have much more on this cool stop-motion project as it develops.  The downside is it looks like the guys will be shooting thier 21 Jump Street film first, which I'm also excited about!

So what do y'all think about this massive Lego movie being developed and the guys bringing it to us?