The Lego Movie 3

The Lego Movie 3 is an upcoming American computer-animated comedy film produced by Warner Animation Group and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. Directed and written by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller it is the sequel to The Lego Movie (2014) and The Lego Movie 2 (2017) and the 7th feature film in the LEGO Extended Universe (LEU). Will be produced by Roy Lee and Dan Lin and stars Chris Pratt, Elizabeth Banks, Will Arnett, Stephanie Beatriz, Alison Brie, Nick Offerman and Charley Day.

The film is scheduled for release in the United States on February 2, 2024.

Cast

 * Chris Pratt as Emmet Brickowsky
 * Elizabeth Banks as Lucy / Wyldstyle
 * Will Arnett as Batman
 * Alison Brie as Unikitty
 * Charlie Day as Benny

Development
Following the release of The Lego Movie 2, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller expressed interest in returning to direct and write a third film. Both prepared treatments that would be essentially different from the final result of the film, however, due to scheduling conflicts from other projects, development was slow at that stage of the project. On January 14, 2020, Warner Bros. Pictures officially announced the film, with a release date of early 2024.

Dan Lin and Roy Lee were announced as producers a month later, while John August was contacted to work on the story alongside Lord and Miller. The duo said, "We're excited to see how we write The Lego Movie 3, it's a nice transitional way we can try to improve the story of the movie."

Writing
Lord and Miller began actively working on the script in April 2020. The following month in a interview, Miller described the project as a character adventure of its own, though it could also act as a follow-up to 2022's Lego Dimensions: "The movie works as a two-part piece. Our characters we already know follow their lead. own story, but we can continue to develop links that are not yet complete." In July, they stated that in the course of writing they turned the film's tone into "an amalgamation" of classic 1970s sci-fi films and 1980, comparing them to Steven Spielberg productions, also citing films such as Star Wars, Back to the Future and ET the Extra-Terrestrial as influences, they further mentioned that the film would be "retro" in nature and have a classic-neon aesthetic.

While writing, the approach was to include exposition scenes, with each moment as a driving force in its own right. The plot of the film is mainly influenced by Alien and The Thing. The first two character-focused acts were developed, albeit in producer Lin's words "hectic, frenetic and on a grand scale throughout", with a third act featuring more over-the-top action. According to Lord, the plot of an alien invasion and science fiction setting gave them the freedom to create an almost psychotic and hallucinatory environment. According to Lord, the unnamed alien villains form a larger mythology that is explored in the film, and makes them bigger, darker, and scarier. By December 2020 the script was finished.

Animation and desing
In February 2021, production was scheduled to begin that same year at the Animal Logic studio in Vancouver, Canada and by May it entered the process after various screenings and suggestions, and a three-month evaluation.

Release
The Lego Movie 3 is scheduled to be released in the United States on February 2, 2024.