LEGO Extended Universe

LEGO Extended Universe (also The Wonderful Multiverse of LEGO or popularly LEGO Cinematic Universe) is a Danish-American shared universe and media franchise based on Lego construction toys produced by LEGO Media & Studios, Warner Animation Group and distributed by Warner Bros and Universal Studios. The franchise has expanded to include comics, short films, and television series. The shared universe, similar to the Marvel Universe or DC Universe, was established by crossing common plots, locations, cast, and characters.

In 2014, after the success of The Lego Movie, Warner Bros. had plans for more spin off of the brand, but originally it only had three spin-offs, an animated television series and the sequel to the original film, but for 2020 after regaining the rights to the saga with Universal Pictures, the franchise expanded to create an expanded universe.

LEU's first film is The Lego Movie (2014), which began the Wave One movies followed by The Lego Batman Movie (2017), which served as a reboot of the Batman film series. These films were followed by The Lego Ninjago Movie (2017), The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (2019), The Billion Brick Race (2019) culminating in the crossover movie The LEGO Dimensions Movie (2022). The Wave Two began with The Lego Movie 3: The Third Part (2024) culminating in the super crossover movie The Lego Dimensions Movie: Episode II (2029). The first two waves are collectively known as "The Dimensions Series".

The Wave Three movies began with The Lego Star Wars Movie in 2031. The franchise will continue with The Lego Justice League Movie in 2031, The Lego Jurassic Park Movie, The Lego Harry Potter Movie 3 and The Lego Harley Quinn Movie in 2032 and The Lego Ghostbusters Movie in 2033. Additionally, the LEU expanded to exclusive releases on the streaming service HBO Max with The Lego BatGirl Movie and LEGO DC Super Villains Movie.

The studio has also confirmed a spinoff franchise, called The LEGO Universe of the Wizarding World, based on JK Rowling's Harry Potter novel series and their respective Live Action films.

Etimology
Since September 2017, the project was officially referred to as "The Lego Movie Franchise", it was not until August 11, 2020, when the term "LEGO Extended Universe" was coined by Christopher Miller in an article that talks about the evolution of the universe thus becoming the official name of the franchise. This term and the abbreviation "LEU" quickly spread among the media and fans. Later in 2022, he would also refer to the franchise as "The Amazing Worlds of LEGO" in multiple advertisements:

During New York Comic-Con 2022, the words "The Wonderful Multiverse of LEGO" were shown many times after showing some of the studio's upcoming films.

Finally, popularly, the universe is also known as: LEGO Cinematic Universe due to the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Released films
The first two waves are collectively called "The Dimensions Series"

Other Films and Cancelled Projects
Main article: Unrealized and other LEU projects

Future
At some point, after the main duological saga is finished, future films have been planned seven to eight years after what they have announced. By April 2028, the planning of additional stories through 2049 was confirmed, resulting in many planned projects that are intentionally "completely autonomous" from those planned in The Dimensions Series and its posterity.

The studio has also confirmed a spinoff franchise, called The LEGO Universe of the Wizarding World, based on JK Rowling's Harry Potter novel series and their respective Live Action films.

Universal Studios
In December 2019, Warner Bros began negotiations to redistribute upcoming film properties based on Lego toys. In January 2020, Warner Bros announced that they expected future Lego movies to be distributed this time in conjunction with Universal Pictures.

In April 2020, the agreement with Warner Bros. was established for a limited 9-year film contract with Universal Pictures, which will lend various film rights, taking 40% of the total profits.

The contract with LEGO and Universal was renewed in 2030, in a film agreement until 2040, which gave the company more freedom to produce the next installments and develop the franchise with more care.

Walt Disney Studios
On August 18, 2027, it was revealed that Warner Bros. Universal and Lego Media had been working and negotiating with other film companies to bring various brands to LEU since at least May 2026. One of these was Walt Disney Studios.

At the end of 2029, when the completion of Wave Two was announced giving multiple thanks and thoughts Miller said: "Nothing is officially announced until we are safe here and there. So we continue with that trajectory (1), being the trajectory ( 2), if something happened to Disney, how would everything change? We have been thinking about everything we can do since we thought about the third wave.

On February 6, 2030, Warner Bros. Universal Pictures, LEGO Media and Disney announced that an agreement had been reached and that brands such as Star Wars, Marvel Superheroes and Indiana Jones will now be able to be used in Warner Bros. and Universal Studios media within a limited period of time. 8 years. (2037), in addition, it was mentioned that multiple productions set in the LEU are already in production.

A new agreement was announced in 2039, with a short time frame of 2 years.

The first movie of the contract was "The Lego Star Wars Movie" released in 2031 and has two sequels and a spin-off scheduled

Sony Pictures
On August 18, 2027, it was revealed that Warner Bros. Universal and Lego Media had been working and negotiating with other film companies to bring various brands to LEU since at least May 2026. One of them was Sony Pictures.

In February 2032, Sony Pictures Entertainment announced that multiple properties would appear on the LEU, (The brands were specified to be: Ghostbusters, Spider Man and Jumanji, such as Men in Black, The Smurfs and Charlie's Angels as small star appearances in some films). All appearing in a 6 year period with unlimited movies.

As part of the agreement, Sony Pictures would continue to finance, distribute, own and have ultimate creative control of the films.

In July 2039, it was announced that Warner Bros. Universal, LEGO Media, and Sony had reached a new agreement that allowed Spider-Man and Ghosburthers to appear in a third and fourth standalone film and a future film.