McKay didn't offer more details, but his comment about it only working on a LEGO movie is certainly intriguing. If the film was going to be about Batman and the Justice League growing apart, this is a great way of exploring that subject in a way we haven't seen in a film before. The other OMAC stands for Observational Metahuman Activity Construct and are cyborg sleeper agents controlled by a satellite Batman himself created to spy on metahumans and superheroes after he'd grown distrustful of the Justice League. The first, a character called OMAC (One-Man Army Corps), was created by Jack Kirby and essentially served as Captain America but set in the future. There are actually two OMACs in the DC Universe. Now, that is a lot to unpack! Lex Luthor as a villain, especially for a Justice League movie, is a cool idea, but introducing OMAC is simply fantastic, no matter how you look at it. The thing that will probably never happen in a live-action movie." There was also going to be a big crossover at one point in the movie that you can only do in a LEGO movie. There’s more of course (lots of Aquaman, Wonder Woman, Lois). "We had lots of great voice actors from The LEGO Movie and LEGO Batman. So the idea of a proper, big-budget Justice League animated film that's also funny as hell sounds very cool. As great as the LEGO Batman Movie's characterization of the Caped Crusader was, the film's plot still felt more like a LEGO Movie spinoff than it did a proper Batman movie, at least in the way something like Into the Spider-Verse was a proper Spider-Man movie in addition to an animated movie starring Spider-Man. it would have been a VERY dense movie) as humanly possible." I would have quadrupled down on making it as much of a real Justice League movie (with lots of jokes, cameos, intersecting storylines, references, etc. Audiences (and subsequent movies like Into the Spider-Verse) proved them wrong. "The studio was leery of LEGO Batman being an actual Batman movie so I was constantly told to hold back. In the first film, we even saw him as a sort of Justice League reject, with Batman discovering that his co-workers and so-called friends held secret parties and meetings without him.Īs successful as LEGO Batman was, McKay explains that the studio was kind of lukewarm about the idea of the film taking the character seriously, something the sequel would have remedied. That certainly tracks with what we saw of Will Arnett's Bruce Wayne/Batman, who was a stupidly stubborn man unwilling to compromise or open up due to a deep fear of letting people get close only to lose them like he lost his parents. the past might be more complicated than it seems." Your old friends might not be able to see the new you. Especially when maybe you weren’t such a good guy to your friends. To stay on the new road you’ve carved for yourself. So the film has kind of a Boogie Nights or Godfather Part II structure to it, but what was it going to be about? The first LEGO Batman Movie was all about family, and McKay explains that the sequel was going to evolve that theme. I worked with Dan briefly on The Sarah Silverman Show and loved working with him and Rob Schrab." See? even Harmon can't say no to LEGO Batman 2. McKay simply responded, "I’m pretty sure we approached Dan about it. Well, apparently it doesn't take much to convince Harmon to add another project to his slate. Now, when you hear the name Dan Harmon, you may wonder how the hell he found the time to write a movie script in-between working on 70+ episodes of Rick and Morty, as well as creating a new animated comedy set in ancient Greece for Fox. RELATED: Universal Monster Movie 'Renfield' Finds New Director in 'Lego Batman Movie's Chris McKay McKay also described the film as sort of " Boogie Nights-esque" and said it was "going to be really funny." Sadly, as much as McKay says he'd like to resurrect the project in another way, Universal is in charge now. a story about Batman’s relationship to the Justice League (and Superman) now as well as the formative moments of the Justice League (and Batman’s relationship with Superman) then."
both from an action standpoint and from a story standpoint. "Dan (Harmon) and (Michael) Waldron had done a first draft of the script that was really great. Rubbing salt in the wound, McKay went further and explained what would have made LEGO Batman 2 special, and it starts with the sheer talent of the film's writing team. I am so sorry to say that but I don't think they'll be making a LEGO Batman 2." "Because LEGO has left Warner Brothers and is now over at Universal, there probably won't be a LEGO Batman sequel, unfortunately. During an exclusive interview with Collider’s Steve Weintraub for McKay's new sci-fi action film The Tomorrow War, McKay broke our collective hearts with the devastating news that Lego Batman will not become a trilogy.
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