Add Ninjago To the List of Live-Action Lego Movies We’re Getting

You whitethorn retrieve proceeding a fewer days agone that Universal formally announced a trio of live-action Lego movies that’ll beryllium individually helmed by Patty Jenkins (Wonder Woman 1984), Joe Cornish (The Kid Who Would Be King), and Jake Kasdan (Red One). But we were, each of us, deceived, for it turns retired there’s not three, not five, but four live-action Lego movies successful the works.

Buried among the quality this week is that Lego’s besides taking a rotation astatine bringing its Ninjago toy enactment to live-action. No manager was revealed, but brothers (and Star Trek Prodigy creators) Kevin and Dan Hageman person been tapped to constitute its script. The duo already person acquisition with the franchise, since they created and enforcement produced the archetypal 9 seasons of its CG bid connected Cartoon Network (and aboriginal Netflix). As to what crushed said movie volition cover, that excessively is presently successful the shadows.

Ninjago archetypal started each the mode backmost successful 2011 and centers connected a squad of color-coded ninjas with antithetic elemental powers similar fire, ice, and earth. (Also, 1 of them’s seemingly a robot?) Trained successful the creation of “spinjitzu,” the six ninjas support the titular metropolis from evil forces similar Lord Garmadon (who’s besides the begetter of the greenish ninja Lloyd), clip traveling elemental masters, and biker gangs. (Y’know, mean ninja stuff.) Both the artifact enactment and amusement are inactive ongoing and beauteous popular, and backmost erstwhile Warner Bros. was making Lego movies, Ninjago was the brand’s archetypal (and only) archetypal instauration get a theatrical film…which went connected to go the series’ archetypal container bureau dud.

How bash we deliberation these caller Lego movies, Ninjago included, volition fare successful live-action? Share your thoughts successful the comments below.

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