Keanu Reeves is circling the lead function in a brand new “Lego” film from “Toy Story 4” director Josh Cooley.
The untitled mission will reunite Cooley and Reeves, who voiced the stuntman motion determine Duke Caboom within the fourth “Toy Story” installment. Common declined to remark.
Common is backing the “Lego” journey, which has been described as a live-action/ CG hybrid. It’s unclear if Reeves will seem on display screen or voice a personality within the movie. Different particulars, together with the plot, screenwriter or fellow solid members, haven’t been confirmed.
Since Common acquired the movie rights to Lego in 2020, the studio has announced several live-action projects from creatives like Jake Kasdan, Patty Jenkins and Joe Cornish, although none of these got here to fruition. Common is reportedly making an attempt to fee a film within the subsequent six months earlier than the rights to the property expire, in response to Deadline, which broke the information of the brand new movie. If this one fails to get made, “Lego” might be again up for grabs.
Lego started increasing into characteristic movies at Warner Bros with 2014’s “The Lego Movie,” which turned successful underneath the path of Phil Lord and Chris Miller. The animated journey became a $1 billion-grossing movie franchise with sequels together with “The Lego Batman Movie,” “The Lego Ninjago Movie” and “The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part.” Whereas “The Lego Batman Movie” was one other success, “The Lego Ninjago Movie” and “The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part” have been business disappointments. After these back-to-back misses, Warner Bros. let the Lego movie rights expire.
Common’s first collaboration with Lego was the Pharrell Williams biopic “Piece by Piece,” which informed the singer-songwriter’s story totally via Lego animation. Regardless of constructive critiques, the film was a field workplace dud with $10 million towards a $16 million funds.
