Warner Bros. is moving forward with a newLEGO Moviespin-offThe Billion Brick Race, bringing inThe Book of Lifedirector Jorge Gutierrez to develop the project. We first heard of this movie back in 2015, when the studio brought onJason Segel to develop and co-directthe movie withIron Man 3writer Drew Pearce, based on original idea Drew Pearce pitched which reportedly “excited” the studio. It doesn’t seem like Jason Segel or Drew Pearce are involved, with the studio not revealing any details about the project thus far.
The Hollywood Reporterbroke the news earlier today, although it isn’t clear if he will develop the story based on Jason Segel and Drew Pearce’s work, or if he’s starting over from scratch with a page-one rewrite. It also hasn’t been clarified if he’s developing this project with the intention to direct as well, but this animated LEGO spin-off is still in very early stages of development. Still, with the success of the first spin-off,The LEGO Batman Movie($175.7 million domestic, $311.7 million worldwide, $80 million budget) and the upcomingThe LEGO Ninjago Moviehitting theaters this fall, it’s clear Warner Bros. is still looking to expand their LEGO empire.
WhileThe LEGO Batman Moviefeatured characters like Batman (Will Arnett), Superman (Channing Tatum) and Green Lantern (Jonah Hill) return fromThe LEGO Movie, it doesn’t seem that the second spin-off,The LEGO Ninjago Movie, will have any characters from the flagship movie in that adventure. With that being said, it isn’t clear ifThe Billion Brick Racewill bring back any primary characters fromThe LEGO Movielike Emmet (Chris Pratt), Wyldstyle (Elizabeth Banks), Princess Uni-Kitty (Alison Brie), Spaceman Benny (Charlie Day) or Vitruvius (Morgan Freeman), just to name a few. Since no story details have been confirmed, it’s impossible to determine who will be featured in this story.
What’s also unclear is when Warner Bros. plans on releasingThe Billion Brick Race.The LEGO Ninjago Moviewill hit theaters on July 24, 2025, withThe LEGO Movie Sequelarriving on July 11, 2025. It’s possible that, if this project is put on the fast track and is put together quickly by Warner Bros. that it could be ready for release in late 2019, but it seems likely that it wont hit theaters until 2020 or later, but that all depends on how quickly this project moves forward in development. We hadn’t heard any developments on this project since Jason Segel signed on back in 2015, so it may also be a long road ahead.
While there is still much we don’t know aboutThe Billion Brick Race, it is certainly in good hands with a talented animation veteran like Jorge Gutierrez, whose belovedBook of Life moviewas released in 2014, produced by Guillermo del Toro. He also created the animated seriesEl Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera, and wrote the script forGuardians of Oz. He is also in pre-production onKung Fu Space Punch, which he is also writing and directing. Hopefully we’ll have more onThe Billion Brick Racein the near future.
