Add Ninjago To the Listing of Reside-Motion Lego Films We’re Getting

It’s possible you’ll keep in mind listening to just a few 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 films 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 write down its script. The duo have already got expertise with the franchise, since they created and govt produced the primary 9 seasons of its CG sequence on Cartoon Community (and later Netflix). As to what floor stated film will cowl, that too is at the moment within the shadows.

Ninjago first began all the best way again in 2011 and facilities on a staff of color-coded ninjas with totally different elemental powers like hearth, ice, and earth. (Additionally, certainly one of them’s apparently a robotic?) Skilled 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 well-liked, and again when Warner Bros. was making Lego films, Ninjago was the model’s first (and solely) authentic creation get a theatrical movie…which went on to turn out to be the sequence’ first field workplace dud.

How do we expect these new Lego films, Ninjago included, will fare in live-action? Share your ideas within the feedback beneath.

[via Deadline]

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