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If They Build It, Will We Come?? There's A LEGO Movie In The Works!!
Merrick here...
Phil Lord and Chris Miller, who adapted Judi Barrett's book
CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS into a film that was far better than it could've been, are taking on a Lego movie for Warner Bros.
The plot is being kept under wraps, but it will be an adventure in the Lego world mixing live action and animation.
In order to get the gig, Lord and Miller prepared a presentation that not only had to pass muster with Warners brass but also with execs from Lego, which is extremely protective with its toys and brand and had a significant hand in the process.
...says THR HERE. The article goes on to describe the duo's pitch process, mentioning that Lego is apparently quite protective of its brand (couldn't tell that from Legoland - sure hated that place...)
As for Lego themselves? They've been around for far longer than many of us realize.
The Lego Group began in the workshop of Ole Kirk Christiansen, a carpenter from Billund, Denmark, who began making wooden toys in 1932. In 1934 his company came to be called Lego. It expanded to producing plastic toys in 1940. In 1949 Lego began producing the now famous interlocking bricks, calling them "Automatic Binding Bricks". These bricks were based largely on the design of Kiddicraft Self-Locking Bricks, which were released in the United Kingdom in 1947.
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The company name Lego was coined by Christiansen from the Danish phrase leg godt, which means "play well". The name could also be interpreted as "I put together" and "I assemble" in Latin, though this would be a somewhat forced application of the general sense "I collect; I gather; I learn"; the word is most used in the derived sense "I read".
...explains THIS Wiki entry about the wonderfully awesome little buildy things.
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In order to get the gig, Lord and Miller prepared a presentation that not only had to pass muster with Warners brass but also with execs from Lego, which is extremely protective with its toys and brand and had a significant hand in the process.
[EDIT]
The company name Lego was coined by Christiansen from the Danish phrase leg godt, which means "play well". The name could also be interpreted as "I put together" and "I assemble" in Latin, though this would be a somewhat forced application of the general sense "I collect; I gather; I learn"; the word is most used in the derived sense "I read".
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better than Lost.
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becuz the world needs a edgy lego movie
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Jun 29, 2010 11:40:32 AM CDT
The only thing that would keep me away is Brendan Frasier
by jackslater4
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So is it going to be adventure? Sci-fi? Drama? I'm hoping for a "When Harry Met Sally" type rom-com.
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...but let that be a warning to the rest of you.
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Spaceships, Knights, pirates, ninjas, should be epic
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Or I'll step on it and break the fucker....and probably cut my foot in the process.
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no? then your not a true fan. Go back to your Mega Bloks muthafucka and quit frontin!
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... that these films get made... but the people that go to the theater and buy the DVD's... THAT'S the thing that boggles my mind. And I call bullshit on those that claim "My kids...". There are scores of good-to-great kids movies that you could be popping into the DVD player for your little larvas.
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a BLOCK party" wheres my money hollywood
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Wonder if anyone gets that...
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Jun 29, 2010 11:55:58 AM CDT
So they saw Toy Story 3 numbers and made a stupid decision?
by ricarleite2
Fucking morons. Also, will there be a Lego-based game, like Lego Star Wars? Lego Lego? Kinda like when Malkovitch enters his own portal...
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He built a full size two-storey house entirely from Lego, brilliant stuff.http://www.daily mail.co.uk/news/ article-1214 729/James-May-size- Lego-house-wants.html
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They'll make Lego shit for any stupid-ass movie or videogame. Then they'll license out to make a videogame of a popular movie. Anything. Lego Batman, Lego Star Wars, Lego Harry Potter. They are interlocking whores.
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are reading joking talkback response titles, and actually making them into movies.
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reboot the Star Wars prequels in Lego with an original story. It will be amazing.
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Every freaking time....
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Clutch Powers. That was a pretty annoying movie to watch. Kids got bored fast.
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...everybody should watch James May's Lego episode on the BBC American programme, "James May's Toy Stories", where he builds an actual two story house out of Lego, then lives in it for 24 hours. Far more entertaining than this movie will be.
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And that would before they added the waterpark section -- should be even better now.
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I were a four year old boy, who cares?
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!!!!!!!!!!! -
As much as I love the way Lego has translated themselves in to video games with a Pixar-meets-robot-chicken vibe and much as I love consuming movies, it's always bugged me that Lego brand been mutating from a game about using your imagination and creativity into a another passively-consumed IP. A part of me wishes they'd keep the brand in mediums where you had to actually build things yourself.
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Me neither.
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I'd even watch Twilight if it was made of Lego.
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my brother used to leave his out when we were kids and i'd step on a piece in the middle of the night and scream like a girl
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...the plural spelling of Lego as Lego. They were Legos when I was dumping piles of them on the carpet in my room as a kid, they're still Legos now, dammit! "Clean up your Lego!" just doesn't have the same ring to it.
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I still do that courtesy of my son. Yet I'M in the wrong for destroying his creation.
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..starring Tom Cruise
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..starring Tom Cruise
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... the bad guy is the man who ripped pieces of paper to shreds in the Langoliers movie.
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Always was and still is. I was always being told to clean up my Lego - and that was just last week...Best toy ever invented.
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LEGOS!!!
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No matter how good Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs was, it's hard to get excited about a LEGO movie. Really, why?? Who knows though? Maybe they might pull off something decent. If they went through a lot of trouble winning Warner Bros and LEGO over then that means they're really taking it seriously.
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Watch the video and tell me Gondry shouldn't direct this.
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The film should follow parallel lego dimensions (space, medieval, etc). The conflict involves collisions between different dimensions, culminating in a catastrophic collapse of the multiverse, and only a small collection of the bravest heroes can save the day!!!
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Friends would come over and get jealous of my buckets and bins full of Lego. They'd say, "Gee Whiz, George! I can't believe how many Lego you have!" and "I wish I always had access to as many Lego as you have!"
And I'd be like, "Aw shucks guys, I'm just glad I have five friend like you to share all my Lego with."
All in all, I think I had about 11,000 Lego. -
Reads awkward doesn't it? That's because the plural of Lego is LEGOS
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Well, I dunno how they could make this Movie without it getting dumb.
But well I also have some Lego-Parts,, and I'm still missing some CrossOvers:
StarTrek (If they can do StarWars, Trek should be doable)
Mechwarrior (Did some mechs for myself and my Brother, using LEGO-Technic-Parts, they were also standing and Quite good moveable)
Transformers (GM got a lot of Money, having TF1&2 as Ads)
@spidercoz: A 3x1, 3x2 or 3x3 - Block? -
The answer to this depends on which country you live in. I'm an Englishman in the States and I've noticed that Yanks call them 'Legos', whereas I always called them 'Lego' in England. But then again, I've heard the odd American here and there say 'Sheeps', so I think that says it all really, doesn't it? It's similar to the whole Math/Maths thing...
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Reads awkward to an American, but not someone from Europe where Lego originated from.
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LOL! More like bubble wrap.
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Did not see that one coming! Not sure how this is going to work. The Lego games were the best thing about the Star Wars franchise in the last 25 years or so.
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whoever wins, we lose. SPOILERS... the Lincoln Logs barely defeat the Tinker Toys, but before they can celebrate their victory, an Erector Set comes and destroys them all ...END SPOILERS.
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Sorry. It had to be said.
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I think it's "Eggo" that is spelled the same way whether plural or not. I mean, think about it, "Leggo my eggoS" just sounds anti-American doesn't it?Legos? As in the island of Legos? Where all the Legbians live? Or is that the isle of Onan? Where people beat off all day?Lego/s suck now for the most part. When I was a weerat, we just had the bricks..different sizes and colors and then every now and then a wing-shape or something specific.Now, everything looks proprietary to itself..ie, the Avatar lego kit (not sure if there was one) is likely a handful of pieces all sculpted to require basically no building beyond snapping one or 2 pieces together.The idea is this: as a kid we would build shit from the guides and then see if we could build it without the guides whereas today, you don't need any guides as its totally obvious where the pieces go. Today's legos are my generations "big blocks" only not so big.We also had "Expert" kits which was sorta replaced by "Mindstorms" not that long ago which, in reality, are more like the legos of my youth only with engines and remote controls.In many ways toys today kick the shit out of our toys of a billion years ago (yeah, I'm that old) but modern kids have to wear helmets when on wheels, so maybe it's something in the water.
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replica of a Republic Cruiser, The fucker was huge.
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Jun 29, 2010 4:10:28 PM CDT
Horrible idea. Lincoln Logs would win.
by ooooooooooooooouuuuuuuuuutttttlllllaaaaa
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Huh. Didn't expect to read that. I was a Lego nerd as a kid (especially the first few castle sets - which I still have stored away in a box), and the video games have been better than expected, so why not! I'll wait until we know more about the story before I take it apart, anyway.
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The corners on the basic six by two blocks will mess up the underside of your feet somethin' fierce!
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...sifting through piles of LEGO, looking for just the right piece.
I swear it taught me mental relaxation techniques that I still use today...
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Same with Clone High, I think these guys are perfectly suited for a movie like this, looking forward to it.
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Just a video of some kid building shitty Lego structures for 2 hrs. No dialogue, no professional actors...just the kid.
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Yeah, so the technical correct plural form would be to refer to the toys as Lego Bricks, but that's a big fat stupid waste o' time and breath.
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Just when I thought Lego couldn't get any cooler... I find out it's made by robots!
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Ordinarily I'd think this was a stupid idea, but since I know my kid (and probably 90% of the rest of his school) will *ahem* shit bricks over this, I'll give it a pass.
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Someone did.
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Far longer than *you* realized, you mean. Jesus Merrick, we're not all as ignorant as you.
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People that call it "legos" make me cringe.
But anyway, screw any "human" element to this, a pure lego film would be awesome. I loved the lego Spiderman vs Doc Oc animations and the Star Wars Lego video games. A movie along those lines would be brilliant! -
WB has been developing a Lego movie for moths.
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Jun 29, 2010 9:43:36 PM CDT
Regarding the plural, a quick search of the internet turned this
by ironhelix
One catalogue, dated 1980, has the following on its back page:
Dear Parents and Children
The word LEGO(R) is a brand name and is very special to all of
us in the LEGO Group Companies. We would sincerely like your
help in keeping it special. Please always refer to our bricks
as 'LEGO Bricks or Toys' and not 'LEGOS.' By doing so, you will
be helping to protect and preserve a brand of which we are very
proud and that stands for quality the world over. Thank you!
Susan Williams
Consumer Services (Susan's name is a
pseudonym for the service dptmt.)
Apparently, you are to refer to them as "LEGO bricks or toys". LEGO is the name of the company, NOT the bricks. -
LEGOS!
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...at the age of four, had a little slip of paper tucked inside...like a fortune cookie. On that paper was printed the exact note you posted above...word for word.
I've kept the flame alive...all these years. -
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/group.php?gid=136662999692610&ref=mf
Replace Steve carell with Rib Corddry on the OFFICE
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I don't care what kind of passive-aggressive brainwashing note you guys all got from some godless word-fascist PR stooge, I'm an American, and I demand that things that are plurals have S's like Jesus intended (it was fishes and loaves, not just fish and bread.) That kind of non-specific, politically correct, secular grammar might be okay for those Euro-heathens, but I demand equal recognition for a traditional, faith-based interpretation of the spelling.
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You people who want "Lego" can wait "on line."
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... being a generic brand, like Kleenex. Because if someone can prove it became generic, Lego becomes a non-trademark word, and anyone can sell their own "legos" - thus creating imitators and FUCKING LEGO IN THE ASS.
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I sure as hell wouldn't have appeared in Costner's fuckin' corn field and just as sure as hell I will avoid watching movies on Lego, Monopoly, Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots or Operation. If a movie based on giant robots from outer space, who can turn into cool cars and then fight each other, sucks as bad as it did, how much do you think a movie based on coloured plastic bricks will suck? Right, THAT much!!
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Seriously watching Legos build by themselves I would be frustrated the whole time. Fuck I need to buy LEGOS!!!
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"Death Star Canteen Lego" - look it up on Ewe Toob.
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One catalogue, dated 1980, has the following on its back page:
Dear Parents and Children
The word LEGO is a brand name and is very special to all of
us in the LEGO Group Companies. We would sincerely like your
help in keeping it special. Please always refer to our bricks
as 'LEGO Bricks or Toys' and not 'LEGOS.' By doing so, you will
be helping to protect and preserve a brand of which we are very
proud and that stands for quality the world over. Thank you!
Susan Williams
Consumer Services (Susan's name is a
pseudonym for the service dptmt.)
In my mind, Lego is a collective noun and as such Lego is both plural and singular.
I would be asked to clear up either my Lego, or Lego bricks. but never Legos, that just sounds wrong.
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No Human Characters!!! In fact they could go the muppets route and do entire movie parodies! LEGO PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN! LEGO EXACLIBUR! LEGO STAR WA- Oh wait... there's already the games... same for Indiana Jones... Then LEGO AVATAR! LEGO SCHINDLERS LIST!!!
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What next Playmobile? Duplo?
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