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The sequel to 2014 surprise hit “The LEGO Movie” will rip a page out of the “My Girl 2” playbook.
According to co-director Chris Miller, the sequel will be set four years later and again feature the boy introduced towards the end of the movie. He, of course, will be older in the film and that will play a big part in whether or not he’s into tossing about plastic bricks anymore.
Miller tells Empire, “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.”
While Miller and Lord won’t be directing the sequel, they will write it – much to their schedule’s surprise.
“We also worried we didn’t have enough time. Luckily, [Chris] McKay and Jared [Stern] and Michelle [Morgan] all worked on the movie a bit in our absence and really cracked the beginnings of a story and got us really excited; excited enough to write it.”
Miller and Lord are also shepherding other “LEGO” movies, like the recently-announced “Ninjago” movie. They’ve a lot on their cardboard party plate, to say the least.
“We’re writing the sequel right now and obviously producing all the other ones. There’s a challenge to make each one feel like its own thing. Part of the fun is finding people like Charlie [Bean], who’s doing the Ninjago movie, and Chris McKay who did so much on the first film. 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.”
