The Lego Movie was a non-cynical great big bunch of loveliness, Lego Batman killed it at the box office once again, and now with La La Land winning nominated for a Best Picture Oscar, it comes as not much of a surprise that the next Lego Movie is going to be a musical.
Talking on the Shanlian on Batman podcast, Lego Batman director Chris McKay confirmed: "Lego 2 is going to be this big musical and space action movie.
"They need a lot of the writing, a lot of development, not only with script development, but development with songwriters. So it was very ambitious to get that movie out."
McKay won't be directing the movie himself - instead he's developing a Nightwing movie, the most recent addition to the DC Universe. The Lego Movie sequel will be headed up by Mike Mitchell, who made Trolls.
The Lego Movie itself wasn't a musical but it does boast the insanely catchy musical number 'Everything Is Awesome'. We can quite see how a sequel with full-on musical numbers would work.
It'll be based on a screenplay by the pair who directed the original Lego Movie, Phil Lord and Chris Miller, who've now moved on to the Han Solo standalone movie in the Star Wars universe. Raphael Bob-Waksberg has also had a rewrite on the sequel's script.
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The Lego Movie follow-up is currently in development and is slated for 2019.
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