Add Ninjago To the Checklist of Stay-Motion Lego M...

Chances are you’ll keep in mind listening to a number of days in the past that Universal formally introduced a trio of live-action Lego movies that’ll be individually helmed by Patty Jenkins (Marvel Lady 1984), Joe Cornish (The Child Who Would Be King), and Jake Kasdan (Red One). However we had been, all of us, deceived, for it turns on the market’s not three, not 5, however 4 live-action Lego motion pictures within the works.

Buried among the many information this week is that Lego’s additionally taking a spin at bringing its Ninjago toy line to live-action. No director was revealed, however brothers (and Star Trek Prodigy creators) Kevin and Dan Hageman have been tapped to put in writing its script. The duo have already got expertise with the franchise, since they created and govt produced the primary 9 seasons of its CG collection on Cartoon Community (and later Netflix). As to what floor stated film will cowl, that too is presently within the shadows.

Ninjago first began all the best way again in 2011 and facilities on a crew of color-coded ninjas with completely different elemental powers like fireplace, ice, and earth. (Additionally, certainly one of them’s apparently a robotic?) Educated within the artwork of “spinjitzu,” the six ninjas defend the titular metropolis from evil forces like Lord Garmadon (who’s additionally the daddy of the inexperienced ninja Lloyd), time touring elemental masters, and biker gangs. (Y’know, regular ninja stuff.) Each the toy line and present are nonetheless ongoing and fairly fashionable, and again when Warner Bros. was making Lego motion pictures, Ninjago was the model’s first (and solely) authentic creation get a theatrical movie…which went on to turn out to be the collection’ first field workplace dud.

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[via Deadline]

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