The Lego Movie (A Proof of Concept)

The Lego Movie is a 2014 computer-animated comedy film written and directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller from a story by Lord, Miller, and Dan and Kevin Hageman. Based on the Lego line of construction toys, the film was conceived by a yet-to-be-identified director as early as 1995 with the success of Disney's Toy Story. Originally, the film was gonna have a much darker and religious tone, with little to no comedy aspect nor no hip-hop or rock music whatsoever, the film originally was going to have music similar to the ones featured in DreamWorks' The Prince of Egypt. However, with Phil Lord and Christopher Miller joining the production in December 27th, 2002, they were shocked and horrified at the production, claiming the film in this direction would traumatize children and no longer want to buy lego stuff, so on February of 2003 both Phil Lord and Christopher Miller fired the unidentified director and both became directors themselves and restarted the production in 2006 to make it more family friendly and made it a buddy comedy film we all come to love.