08.12.09 FACEPALM DIGEST REPORTS: LEGO FILM IN WORKS
(I might just be saying this because he’s partying, but that costume is effing amazing.)
Transformers and G.I. Joe scored big at the box office, so why not adapt so more kids toys? Like, say, Legos? Don’t answer that. Believe it or not, in Hollywood, that’s considered a rhetorical question.
WB is toying with plans [haha TOYING, get it? *cocks pistol*] to develop a movie around Lego and its popular building blocks. Scribes Dan and Kevin Hageman are penning the script for the family comedy that will mix live action and animation. Warners is keeping the plot tightly under wraps, but it’s described as an action adventure set in a Lego world.
Directors and producers in town have attempted to make a Lego movie for years, approaching the Danish toymaker with various ideas, but Lego turned down most of them because it’s highly protective of its brand. But the company sparked to producer Dan Lin and the Hageman brothers’ embrace of core values Lego wanted to include in a film, especially “a fun factor, creativity and that imagination has no boundaries,” Lin told Daily Variety. [Variety]
See, hundreds of people had wanted to make a Lego movie before, but when the Lego execs asked how they’d do it, the answer was always, “We were thinking of something totally without fun, creativity, or imagination, like building a puppy casket according to spec.” After a few rounds of that, we just assumed it’d never happen. But this Dan Lin guy, he wouldn’t take no for an answer, and when he finally broke into the office he said, “Guys, I know this is gonna sound crazy, but we should make a movie that kids will like.” We hired him on the spot, and then we all went out for Jamba Juice.
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FACEPALM DIGEST REPORTS: LEGO FILM IN WORKS
The party really got hokey when the drunk, morbidly obese guy dressed as a Klingon tried to pull off the Lego-man’s arms!
“See! He told you this guy was a fake! BONG!!!!!!!”
Is that Jon Gries in the background?
A Lego movie is gonna be one giant steaming pile of Lincoln Logs.
They decided to go high-concept. All the male characters will be played by the blocks that show only their fronts, females will be played by blocks filmed from behind.
Did they get Chan Crawford for the Slinky movie???
Coming in 2012! Sascha Cohen and Jerry Seinfeld star in a Mel Brooks film, “Easy Bake Oven”!
An autistic director would really know how to make this movie.
*builds life-size Lego statue of him giving a fuck*
Brett Ratner was considered to helm the Lego project but was eventually dimissed because of his insipid need to keep saying “My Ego!” every time someone said the movie title.
Lego movie need trilogy. Legos have six sides. That make two sides for every story.
*Eggo
I can’t wait for the video game based off of this.
From the creators of Lego Star Wars, Lego Indiana Jones, and Lego Batman: we’d like to introduce you to Lego Legos!
Doctors are excited about the expected increase in office visits due to the DVD being lodged in children’s nostrils.
Describing two guys working on a Lego movie as “scribes” is like calling a plunger handle “avant-garde seating.”
The special education center in this world will be built with Duplos.
I don’t want to alarm anyone, but Trish is back. (We should have a Latest Comments link coming back soon so I won’t have to alert you guys to this kind of thing).
The screenplay was notorious for causing writers block.
First GI Joe, now this. why are they making movies of things i shoved up my ass when i was a kid?
If their not careful, this entire movie could fall apart.
“Erector Set” was already taken by a small Scandinavian porn company.
Vink, where she @?
The studio is set to test a revolutionary new piecemeal payment plan for the writers.
Plot holes will develop when writers run out of those incredibly handy one-by-two blocks.
I think the film would look more realistic if they made it about Lego Technics.
Unfortunately the studio let its dog into the meeting and now the plot’s got no wheels, is missing a head and there’s a vomit pile that looks like little Billy’s retainer on the cover.
I was going to say that Hollywood has officially hit rock bottom, but you know that somebody will somehow come up with something even crappier.
They’re looking at Emily Deschanel for the female lead. Her head is already the right size and shape, so they figure they can save a bunch on makeup.
Maybe so Donk, but I’d still fuck her dry.
Don’t ever bring a Lego around your date. The Lego will just end up cock blocking you.
This could work but they’re going to need someone to do a Tommy Cooper impersonation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2nL5sSSvd0
The production will be marred by delays when one of the Warner Brothers keeps kicking over the other’s work.
That was the last photograph taken of black mask dude before his face exploded into a red mist and Predator de-cloaked.
LeGo is the starting block on the French Monopoly board, right?
Lego man would fit right into Hollywood Squares now.
The final print of the Lego film will be colored beautifully, except for one green block off to the side they hoped no one would notice.
The Kurgan says:
First GI Joe, now this. why are they making movies of things i shoved up my ass when i was a kid?
There’s a Giant Black Dildo movie?
New up, and I think it’s for the boys.
Fair enough, we got Channing first thing this morning. I’ll allow it.
Patty Boots says:
I was going to say that Hollywood has officially hit rock bottom, but you know that somebody will somehow come up with something even crappier.
My Learning Blocks script is drawing considerable interest.
Fek’lhr says:
Coming in 2012! Sascha Cohen and Jerry Seinfeld star in a Mel Brooks film, “Easy Bake Oven”!
is it a comedy set during the holocaust?
The only way I’ll see this is if it stars Zack the Lego Maniac.
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