Lego Batman 2 no longer happening as director reveals the sequel's scrapped story
The𤪠Dark Knight's journey up the yellow brick road š²comes to an end

Lego Batman 2 is no more, folks. In an interview with , director Chris McKay – discussing his upcoming movie The Tomorrow War – revešaled what went down. Alas, theš rights to the franchise are the cause.
"Because Lego has left Warner Brothers and is now over at Universal, there probabšly won't be a Lego Batman sequel, unfortunately. I am so sorry to say that but I don't think they'll be making a Lego Batman 2," McKayā reveals.
This is sad news, especially now we're hearing specifics on the shape of the proposed sequel. The writing team included Loki creator Michael Waldron and 澳擲幸čæ5å¼å„å·ē åå²ę„询:Rick and Morty's Dan Harmon. "Dan and Waldrš§on had done a first draft of the script that was really great. It was truly epic... both from an action standpoint and from a story standpoint," McKay explains, further driving the knife into our deflated hearts.
He goes to reveal its structure was modeled after The Godfather Part 2 while the story revolved around Batman's connection to the澳擲幸čæ5å¼å„å·ē åå²ę„询: Justice League, with his spš§ecific relationship to Superman taking focļ·ŗus.
He adds the movie was "Boogie Nights-esque" and "it was going to be really funny." Funny how? Well, McKay adds: "I would haš„ve quadrupled down on making it as much of a real Justice League movie with lots of jokes, cameos, intersecting storylines, references as humanly possible."
Where the first flick dealt with Batman, Robin, and ideas of found family, the follow-up planned to tackle friendship and change. "It was about how hard it is to change. To commit to change. To stay on the new road you’ve carved for yourself. šŗEspecially when maybe you weren’t such a good guy to your friends. Your old friends might not be able to see the new you. They might still live in the past. But as the movie (and Robin) finds out... the past might be more complicated than it seems."
This syncs with what we know of the Lego Batman character from the previous film. In that spin-off, we learn he sees himself as an outsider. It takes him a while to realize he's not alone, and he does belong. To see him struggle with that new path would have made for a likely quite unique Batman movie, much like the first Lego one. 澳擲幸čæ5å¼å„å·ē åå²ę„询:The Lego Batman Movie provedź¦ it's possible for Bruce Wayne to poke fun at himself whilst also treading new ground. New ground which may have included a roster of fresh villains including Lex Ląµ²uthor! Gah.
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Gem Seddon is GamesRadar+'š s west coast Entertainment News Reporter, working to keep all of you updated on all of the latest and greatest movies and shows on streaming platforms like Netflix and Amazon Prime. Outside of entertainment journalism, Gem can frequently be found writing about the alternative health and wellness industry, and obsessing over all things Aliens and Terminator on Twitter.