The LEGO Batman Film (2017) was an enormous success. It hit all of the containers of crucial and fan acclaim, in addition to main field workplace success, warranting a assured sequel, however LEGO has since ended its partnership with Warner Bros. and landed at Common, leaving the characters from the movie in limbo.
Which means we’ll sadly not see a sequel to the film, however director Chris McKay has supplied followers a little bit perception as to what we may have anticipated to see within the second movie. In a current interview with Uproxx, McKay defined:
“We had a extremely enjoyable script with Dan Harmon and Michael Waldron, wrote a extremely enjoyable form of Superfriends. The sequel would’ve been a quasi Superfriends film and the construction was going to be a form of Godfather II form of factor with Batman and the Justice League going through a modern-day downside, Lex Luthor and OMAC, whereas on the identical time flashing again to the the explanation why Batman and the Justice League – and specifically, Superman – have unhealthy blood. It was going to discover Superman and Batman’s relationship in a really completely different approach than you’ve ever seen it portrayed, together with Superman’s alienation from humanity and the way arduous it’s to actually be buddies, actual buddies, for years. It was in the end going to reply the query: How do you change into Tremendous-friends. And there was going to be a crossover with a serious franchise that may solely occur in a LEGO film.”
It’s such a bummer that this film couldn’t be made! The LEGO motion pictures have been a extremely enjoyable franchise, and LEGO Batman deserved a second movie to complete out the story. Oh effectively, possibly some day.