THE LEGO MOVIE Sequel Takes Place 4 Years Later

Everything Phil Lord and Chris Miller touch seems to turn to gold, at least that is what it appears happens as they are one of the most sought after people in Hollywood at the moment. Currently, they are very busy producing three animated film for Warner Bros.: Ninjago, The Lego Batman Movie and The Lego Movie 2. Miller says the challenge of producing the three films is to "make each one feel like its own thing." Miller adds, "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."

Besides producing, the two are writing the sequel to The Lego movie, but originally didn't think they would as they didn't want to rehash what they had done before and they were also worried that they didn't have time. But once they had cracked the beginning of the story and knew which "new themes" to add they went full steam ahead.

Chris Miller divulged a few secrets about The Lego Movie 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."

Directed by Phil Lord & Christopher Miller, The LEGO ® Movie is an original animated film that follows the adventures of Emmet (voice of Chris Pratt), a rules-abiding, perfectly ordinary citizen who is mistakenly identified as “The Special,” the most extraordinary person and the key to saving the world. Drafted into a fellowship of strangers, Emmet embarks on an epic quest to stop the evil tyrant, Lord Business (voice of Will Ferrell), a journey of self-discovery that will require him to summon all of his previously untapped creativity and imagination. The voice cast also includes Elizabeth Banks, Will Arnett, Nick Offerman, Alison Brie and Charlie Day, with Liam Neeson and Morgan Freeman. The screenplay is by Phil Lord & Christopher Miller, from a story by Dan Hageman & Kevin Hageman and Phil Lord & Christopher Miller, based on LEGO construction toys. The film is produced by Dan Lin and Roy Lee.