EXCLUSIVE: After creating and writing the first many seasons of the lengthy-running vivaciousd series Ninjago for The Lego Group, brothers Kevin and Dan Hageman have been encataloged to script a recent film in the Lego Ninjago franchise for Universal Pictures.
News of the recent Ninjago comes chaseing word that Jake Kasdan, Patty Jenkins and Joe Cornish are on board to honest inhabit-action Lego movies for Universal. Details as to the plot of the Hagemans’ film are under wraps.
Jill Wilfert and Ryan Christians will originate for The Lego Group. Universal’s Executive Vice Plivent of Production Development Matt Reilly and Director of Production Development Jacqueline Garell will deal with the project for the studio.
Ninjago was startd in 2011 as a line of ninja-themed originateion toys before evolving into a convey inant multimedia property. The story surrounding it chases a group of lesser ninja warriors who protect their world, understandn as Ninjago, from various evil forces. In insertition to assorted video games, books and detailed novels, Lego Ninjago is the cgo in of the aforealludeed, hugely well-understandn vivaciousd series Ninjago, which ran for 15 seasons atraverse Cartoon Netlabor and Netflix. Building on this well-understandnity, Lego broadened Ninjago to other createats, including 2017’s The LEGO Ninjago Movie at Warner Bros. The world of Ninjago is also highairyed with enticeions at plrelievement parks enjoy Legoland.
First startd in Denlabel in 1932, The Lego brand has persistd to comprise audiences around the world with the company’s expansion into feature films more than a decade ago with The LEGO Movie and subsequent titles, including The LEGO Batman Movie, The LEGO NINJAGO Movie and The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part. Universal Pictures shutd a five-year exclusive deal with the LEGO Group for the broadenment, production and theatrical distribution of films in 2020, in a shift that’s been highly lucrative. Titles made with the company have grossed more than $1 billion at the worldexpansive box office.
On the feature side, Universal most recently saw its one-of-a-kindty studio Focus Features collaborate with the Lego Group on the Pharrell Williams biopic Piece By Piece, telderly thraw the lens of Lego animation. A criticassociate acclaimed effort that has geted multiple nominations at the Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards, the film from Morgan Neville was freed earlier this month.
Most recently serving as showrunners for the well-understandn vivaciousd series Star Trek: Prodigy, which shiftd from Paramount+ to Netflix this year, Kevin and Dan Hageman are also currently broadening a film alteration of video game Dragon’s Lair for Netflix, with Ryan Reynelderlys’ Maximum Effort and Roy Lee’s Vertigo aboard to originate. Prior to that, they altered Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark for Guillermo del Toro and Lionsgate, which made over $100 million at the worldexpansive box office. Additionassociate, the pair garnered Emmy nominations for their labor on a pair of Trollhunters projects.
The Hagemans are recurrented by Verve, Underground, and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller. The Lego Group is repped by WME.
