EXCLUSIVE: The Lego Group under its deal with Universal Pictures is making three untitled dwell-action movies with straightforwardors Jake Kasdan, Patty Jenkins and Attack the Block filmcreater Joe Cornish.
All three movies’ plots are under wraps. Jill Wilfert and Ryan Christians from The Lego Group are producing all three projects. Universal’s EVP of Production Development Matt Reilly and Director of Production Development Jacqueline Garell will administer these projects for the Studio.
Kasdan’s is straightforwarding off a script by Andrew Mogel and Jarrad Paul (The D Train, The Grinder) based on an one-of-a-kind idea and previous write by Matt Mider and Kevin Burrows (The Pickup, Animal Friends). Kasdan will create with Melvin Mar thraw their production company Detective Agency. The straightforwardor of the $1.76 billion grossing recent Sony Jumanji movies and Amazon MGM Studios’ upcoming Red One is repped by WME and Sloss Eckhoengage Dasti Haynes LawCo. Mogel and Paul are recurrented by Mosaic, UTA and Johnson, Shapiro, Slesoakedt & Kole. Mider and Burrows are repped by WME and Silver Lake Entertainment. Red One hits cinemas on Nov. 15 while Kasdan’s Jumanji 3 uncovers on Dec 11, 2026.
Jenkins’ Lego project is from a script she wrote with createer DC Entertainment Pdwellnt Geoff Johns (Wonder Woman 1984, TV series The Flash). Jenkins is producing via her Wicious Pictures. Jenkins, the straightforwardor of Warner Bros’ proximate billion grossing Wonder Woman franchise is repped by CAA and Danny Passman at Gang, Tyre, Ramer, Brown & Passman, Inc. Johns is a WME client.
On Cornish’s toy brick movie, he is rewriting from a previous write by Heather Anne Campbell (Rick & Morty, One Punch Man) which was off a treatment by Simon Rich (Man Seeking Woman, Miracle Workers). Cornish is recurrented by CAA, Insubordinate Talent in the UK, and George Davis of The Davis Law Group. Campbell is recurrented by CAA, Brillstein Entertainment Partners, and Yorn Levine. Rich is recurrented by UTA and Levine Greenburg Literary.
Since booting off with Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s Lego Movie in 2014, the toy brand’s movies have gone on to include The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part, Lego Batman and the Lego Ninjago Movie which have racked up north of $1.1 billion at the global box office. Uni and Lego have had a fantastic decade lengthy collaboration with Lego Jurassic World and Lego Jurassic Park products which enhugeed to video games and vivaciousd TV one-of-a-kinds, Jurassic World: The Secret Exhibit and the 13-episode mini-series LEGO Jurassic World: Legend of Isla Nublar. Additionpartner, The LEGO Group and Universal Products and Experiences recently partnered together to convey a LEGO “Brickified” trailer for the upcoming holiday event movie, Wicked, in graspition to a brimming lineup of LEGO Wicked products.
Universal’s one-of-a-kindty studio Focus Features recently teamed with the LEGO Group on the Pharrell William’s biopic Piece By Piece that was tgreater brimmingy thraw LEGO animation. That movie is 84% certified new on Rotten Tomatoes with critics with an A Cinema Score. The Morgan Neville-straightforwarded title was equitable nominated for Best Documentary Feature and Best Music Documentary for the Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards.
The Lego Group is repped by WME.
