Of Course, There's Going To A 'Lego Movie' Sequel, It's Already Being Written!

The Lego Movie clocked up nearly $70m on its debut. It racked up a ridiculously high score on Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic combined, and is being talked about in the same breath as Toy Story and Finding Nemo. It’s a smash.

So it makes perfect sense that Warner Bros. are already in talks to get a sequel off the ground, with screenwriters Jared Stern and Michelle Morgan are already hard at work mapping out possible storylines for the franchise to take.

Stern had a part to play in Bolt, The Princess and the Frog and Wreck-It Ralph. But he also wrote Mr. Popper’s Penguins for Jim Carrey, The Watchand and The Internship, both starring Vince Vaughn (not really a good thing).

Morgan wrote and produced Kristen Wiig’s recent Girl Most Likely and she directed a well-received short entitled K.I.T., about a misunderstood yuppie hell-bent on setting the record straight.

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"I can't imagine this not turning into a long-term franchise," said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for box-office tracker Rentrak, following the film’s brilliant debut at the box office. "This is such a runaway success that Warner Bros is now a major player in the animated genre."

The critics lapped up the action, including Bill Zwecker of The Chicago Sun Times, who said: “The visuals are spectacular, the 3D technology is artfully used and the story is jam-packed with so many funny lines, it's hard to catch all the jokes that are delivered in rapid-fire succession -- constantly tweaking many popular culture icons.”

The animation game already has a lot of players (Disney, Pixar, DreamWorks, Fox/Blue Sky and Universal) but it looks as though Warner Bros. aren’t exactly scared of them. With a property as big as The Lego Movie on their hands, they’v little reason to be. Will we be seeing Toy Story 4 anytime soon to counter the threat? We’d feel like kids with divorced parents fighting for our affection, but then, who doesn’t?