It's been a while since we've heard anything about The LEGO Movie spin-off The Billion Brick Race, but now that we finally do have some news, it's a pretty big announcement.
Yes, the film has landed itself a new director, two years after it was announced that How I Met Your Mother star Jason Segel had signed up to take on the role alongside Iron Man 3 writer Drew Pearce.
Instead, The Book of Life director Jorge Gutierrez has now joined the project as the director, according to The Hollywood Reporter, and has been brought on to help develop the project.
Gutierrez is best known for his work on Guillermo Del Toro's 2014 animated musical The Book of Life, and has worked as an animator for sketches in Cartoon Network's Mad, and as a writer on Disney's Brandy and Mr Whiskers, among other projects.
He's also won two Annie awards (Best TV Animated show & Best TV Character Design) and one Emmy (Best TV Character Design) for his work on Nickelodeon's El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera.
The Billion Brick Race is based on an original idea from Pearce and is currently still in development.
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The LEGO Movie's Dan Lin, Phil Lord, Chris Miller and Roy Lee are on board as producers of the project, with Chris McKay and Jill Wilfert of LEGO executive producing.
Warner Bros' LEGO franchise kicked off with The LEGO Movie in 2014 and soon led to the announcement of several spin-offs and sequels in the LEGO universe, including this year's The LEGO Batman Movie.
Also in store for LEGO fans is the upcoming LEGO Movie 2, which is set to be a musical space-action film, currently scheduled for release in February 2019, as well as The LEGO Ninjago Movie, which is coming later this year on September 22 in the US and October 13 in the UK.
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