Add Ninjago To the Checklist of Reside-Motion Lego Motion pictures We're Getting

Chances are you’ll bear in mind listening to a couple of days in the past that Common formally introduced a trio of live-action Lego movies that’ll be individually helmed by Patty Jenkins (Marvel Girl 1984), Joe Cornish (The Child Who Would Be King), and Jake Kasdan (Purple One). However we have been, all of us, deceived, for it turns on the market’s not three, not 5, however 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 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 collection on Cartoon Community (and later Netflix). As to what floor mentioned film will cowl, that too is at the moment within the shadows.

Ninjago first began all the way in which again in 2011 and facilities on a crew of color-coded ninjas with totally different elemental powers like fireplace, ice, and earth. (Additionally, one among them’s apparently a robotic?) Educated within the artwork of “spinjitzu,” the six ninjas shield 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 in style, 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 change into the collection’ first field workplace dud.

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

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