Producer Dan Lin Talks LEGO Movie

Filmmakers Phil Lord and Chris Miller have covered a broad range of comedy across their work, from Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs to 21 Jumps Street. Now, the directors are steeped in a world of bricks and mini-figs as they continue work on their latest feature project LEGO: Piece of Resistance.

Collider recently spoke with LEGO producer Dan Lin about the animated film. "If you know [Lord and Miller's] work... they are funny guys, they are quirky guys," he said. "This is very specific to their tone and they've created a whole new set of original characters that no one's seen before.

"The vision that Lord and Miller had for the movie was that anything you see in the movie can be actually built out of Lego bricks," he continued. "And with Lego they know their core audience so well that they’re really helping to educate us about their core audience and what they like and what they may have issues with."

This isn't from Lord & Miller's LEGO movie, which also features Batman, but it's still fun to watch:

Also cool? LEGO themselves are lending a hand to various components of the movie. "They've been really a great partner in the process," Lin said. "For instance, they're building some of the models for our movie. I just got back from Australia and they built a pirate ship that we have in the movie and they really have helped us design the characters."

But as production continues on the LEGO movie, Lin added that Lord and Miller still haven't forgotten about 21 Jump Street 2. In fact, the directors should be ready for shooting on that film by early next year.

Said Lin, "Yeah, we'll work on it intensely until February, Lord and Miller are; they're re-writing the script, working with artists on this animatic and hopefully in February the plan is to send this animatic to Australia and they'll have less day-to-day involvement and free themselves up for other projects."

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