Jesus Christ, three others Lego Movies? Yes, three more films about the beloved Danish lockblocks are in development at Universal. Presumably buoyed by the endless enthusiasm surrounding Pharrell’s animated propaganda, Piece by pieceUniversal and Lego are teaming up for three films about barefoot’s worst enemy: Lego blocks. Oh, and proving that the Dark Universe isn’t dead, the films will be live-action.

The names associated with these projects range from unsurprising to depressing. First, Jake Kasdan will follow the almost certain success of Red with a Lego Movie with four writers attached. By Hollywood journalist, Train D scribes Andrew Mogel and Jarrad Paul will pick up where The pick-up writers Matt Rider and Kevin Burrows stopped by. Previously, Kasdan made such an effective biopic parody that it ruined biopics.

After four years spent working around Warner Bros. and Disney, Patty Jenkins finally has another project, a fucking Lego movie that she’s writing with Geoff Johns. Jenkins, who produced one of the few unequivocal successes of the Snyderverse, was rewarded for directing a Wonder Woman sequel, people didn’t like it with four years of development, hell on one Star Wars a movie that never happened. To be fair to Wonder Woman 1984it was difficult to enjoy anything in December 2020.

Finally, Joe Cornish, director of Attack the block and the invisible, quite charming The child who wanted to be kingwill rewrite the draft of another Lego movie by Heather Anne Campbell and Simon Rich. The names contained in this one are most intriguing. Cornish always seems to be involved in projects that don’t cross the finish line, like Snow accident, Starlightand, perhaps most egregiously, a sequel to his escape, Attack the block. Campbell and Rich are two of the best comedy writers in Hollywood, so if we had to invest in one of them that’s worth it, this would be it. Maybe we’ll get a new Joe Cornish movie for the first time in five years.

But even still, is this really where we are heading? Live-action Lego movies? How many fish-out-of-water stories about a Lego man leaving the Lego world can one studio make? Now that superhero movies are no longer a safe bet, Universal wants to make Warner Animation’s mistake by producing more Lego movies than anyone could reasonably want. Have we learned nothing from Ninjago? Nothing Playmobil: The Movie? It is indeed a dark universe.