THE LEGO BATMAN MOVIE Sequel Is Dead, but Chris McKay Offers Up Cool Story Details

The LEGO Batman Movie (2017) was a huge success. It hit all the boxes of critical and fan acclaim, as well as major box office success, warranting a guaranteed sequel, but LEGO has since ended its partnership with Warner Bros. and landed at Universal, leaving the characters from the film in limbo.

That means we will unfortunately not see a sequel to the movie, but director Chris McKay has offered fans a little insight as to what we could have expected to see in the second film. In a recent interview with Uproxx, McKay explained:

“We had a really fun script with Dan Harmon and Michael Waldron, wrote a really fun kind of Superfriends. The sequel would’ve been a quasi Superfriends movie and the structure was going to be a sort of Godfather II kind of thing with Batman and the Justice League facing a modern-day problem, Lex Luthor and OMAC, while at the same time flashing back to the reasons why Batman and the Justice League – and in particular, Superman – have bad blood. It was going to explore Superman and Batman’s relationship in a very different way than you’ve ever seen it portrayed, including Superman’s alienation from humanity and how hard it is to truly be friends, real friends, for years. It was ultimately going to answer the question: How do you become Super-friends. And there was going to be a crossover with a major franchise that can only happen in a LEGO movie.”

It’s such a bummer that this movie couldn’t be made! The LEGO movies have been a really fun franchise, and LEGO Batman deserved a second film to finish out the story. Oh well, maybe some day.