On February 7th, 2014 “The Lego Movie“, formerly titled “LEGO: The Piece of Resistance“, is to be released! This cross between live action and animation will be about a young Lego minifigure’s struggle to become a MasterBuilder. As one of the writers, Phil Lord, says: “It is the story of basically a young man who doesn’t have a creative bone in his body and he has to always build things from the instructions, he’s an ‘instructions worker’. In the LEGO city, they build buildings, and it turns out in this universe it’s illegal to build apart from the instructions. So what he finds out is that he’s actually a descendant from these like super creative Jedi-type people who are called ‘Master Builders’ and he has been charged with saving the universe from being frozen together by an evil bad guy, so over the course of the movie he has to unlearn all of that lame-o, uncreative stuff and learn how to build without all of the instructions in order to save the universe (Phil Lord)”.
Though the plot sounds quite entertaining, a movie is not made by the story alone. A good story needs to have good actors. Directed by Phil Lord, Chris Miller, and Chris McKay with a cast including Will Ferrell, Liam Neeson, Alison Brie, Nick Offerman, Morgan Freeman, Elizabeth Banks, Chris Pratt, Will Arnett, and Patricia Taylor; it’s clear that “The Lego Movie” will be an excellent movie. (Thanks to IMDB and The Brickipedia for some of the info!)
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