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Warner Bros. to build Lego movie

August 14, 2009 – 11:15 am, by Luke Buckmaster
   

LegoUnderstanding Hollywood’s insatiable thirst for milking well-known brand names – for example, last month I wrote about Universal’s upcoming adaption of Atari’s 1979 video game Asteroids – I wasn’t surprised to hear murmurs around the cyber camp fire that a big screen Lego movie may be on the cards. And low and behold…it is. In the wake of the box office rogering by the recent Hasbro toys-adapted Transformers movies, which gobbled up insane cash at the box office, Variety report that Warner Bros. are toying (ho ho) with the idea of bringing a Lego-fest to the big screen. Writers Dan and Kevin Hageman have been commissioned to write a family friendly action adventure that will reportedly mix live action and animation, and Transformers make-brain-no-thinko director Michael Bay has signed on to direct. OK, that last bit was a lie, but the idea of Bay corrupting Lego’s squeaky clean image with his trademark recipe – a cinematic hernia of bombast and chaos, delivered with his self-confessed penchant for “f*cking the frame” – carries with it a certain deranged appeal. So – and I never thought I’d say this – Michael Bay should be hired as director, simply because of the weirdness of him getting busy with those old school yellow-faced blockheads. Who knows what the Hageman brothers will dream up for a storyline. Anyone got any ideas?

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    sbr
    Posted August 14, 2009 at 11:45 am | Permalink

    They really need to give the job to Lindsay Fleay, the Australian who back in the late 1980s made the Citizen Kane of brickfilms, The Magic Portal.

    See it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jde4qHbCtSg

    And read about it at Fleay’s site here: http://www.rakrent.com/mp/mp.htm

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    Rhona
    Posted August 14, 2009 at 2:52 pm | Permalink

    Endless possibilities really…it all depends which set you had to play with! My pride and joy was the space 2000 set which included lots of fluro and space dishes. I really wanted the pirate ship set. Maybe some battle between pirates and astronauts – my lego vs the lego I always wanted? Sounds bloody awful…Perfect!

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    Eruditon Wookie
    Posted August 16, 2009 at 7:20 pm | Permalink

    It should be a Field of Dreams ‘reimagining’ ie If You Build It, They Will Come!

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    Bernard
    Posted August 18, 2009 at 5:10 pm | Permalink

    hhmmm, depends on what angle they’re gonna take.
    With a mixture of live action and animation? I’m getting horrific Small Soldiers with drawals now. Oh, and remember that movie, Indian in the cupboard? T-Rex vs Vader would’ve been fun.

    Back to Lego, they can’t not make it a family friendly movie. Them smiling yellow heads, what else can you do with them?

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    Lenka
    Posted August 25, 2009 at 8:31 pm | Permalink

    when i was a kid i remember watching a stop-start animation of lego that was amazing! i will try and find it on you tube for you all – worth a look!

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