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Plans of the film based on Lego started in 2008 and was announced by Warner Bros. Much of the cast were signed in to voice the characters in 2012, while the animation was provided by Animal Logic. In the Lego universe, the wizard Vitruvius fails to protect a superweapon called the “Kragle” from the evil Lord Business, but prophesies that a person called “The Special” will find the Piece of Resistance capable of stopping the Kragle. Lord Business claims it untrue and kicks Vitruvius off a cliff. 2 years later in Bricksburg, construction worker Emmet Brickowski comes across Wyldstyle, a woman searching for something at Emmet’s construction site. Emmet falls into a pit and finds the Piece of Resistance. Compelled to touch it, Emmet experiences visions and passes out.
He awakens in the custody of Bad Cop, Business’s lieutenant, with the Piece of Resistance attached to his back. Piece of Resistance is the tube’s cap. Wyldstyle rescues Emmet, believing him to be the Special. Emmet, Wyldstyle, and Vitruvius evade Bad Cop’s forces with Batman’s help and escape to Cloud Cuckoo Land where all the master builders are in hiding.
The Master Builders are unimpressed with Emmet’s cowardliness and refuse to help him fight Business. Bad Cop’s forces attack and capture everyone except Emmet and his friends. Emmet finds himself in the human world where the events of his life are being played out in a basement by a young boy, Finn, on his father’s Lego set. The father — “The Man Upstairs” — chastises his son for creating hodgepodges of different playsets and begins to permanently glue his perceived perfect creations together. Realizing the danger, Emmet wills himself to move and gains Finn’s attention.
Chris Pratt as Emmet Brickowski, an everyman and construction worker from Bricksburg who is initially mistaken for the Special. Will Ferrell as Lord Business, an evil businessman who hates Master Builders, tyrant of Bricksburg and the Lego Universe who is the company president of the Octan Corporation under the name President Business. Morgan Freeman as Vitruvius, a blind and elderly wizard-like Master Builder. Wyldstyle, a “tough as nails” and tech-savvy Master Builder. Batman, a DC Comics character who is one of the Master Builders, as well as Wyldstyle’s boyfriend and an amateur musician.
Master Builder who lives in Cloud Cuckoo Land. Charlie Day as Benny, a “1980-something space guy”-like Master Builder who is obsessed with building spaceships. Scribble Cop, a police officer with a two-sided head and a split personality who serves Lord Business as the commander of the Super Secret Police. Cobie Smulders as Wonder Woman, a DC Comics character who is one of the Master Builders. Jadon Sand as Finn, an eight-and-a-half-year-old boy who is the son of “The Man Upstairs” in the live-action part of the film.
Shaquille O’Neal portrays a Lego version of himself who is a Master Builder alongside two generic members of the 2002 NBA All-Stars. The development of The Lego Movie began in 2008, when Dan Lin and Roy Lee discussed it before Lin left Warner Bros. Pictures to form his own production company, Lin Pictures. By August 2009, Dan and Kevin Hageman were writing the script described as “action adventure set in a Lego world. In 2008, Lin visited The Lego Group’s headquarters in Denmark to pitch his vision for the film, later remarking uncertainty among executives. Phil Lord and Christopher Miller were in talks in June 2010 to write and direct the film.