Morgan Freeman Lego Movie, Oscar winner Morgan Freeman, who played Lucius Fox in Nolan's Batman trilogy, will once again cross paths with the Caped Crusader onscreen ... this time in LEGO form.
Deadline reports that both Freeman and The Hunger Games' Elizabeth Banks have been added to the voice cast of Warners' animated LEGO Movie. They join Chris Pratt and Will Arnett, who play the movie's protagonist and a LEGO version of Batman, respectively.
No word on Banks' role, but Freeman's character is said to be named "Vitruvius," which also just so happens to be the name of an ancient Roman author of a multi-volume work on architecture (a fitting subject for LEGO).
The movie will be directed by 21 Jump Street's Phil Lord and Chris Miller. Lord recently described the film as the story of "a young man who doesn't have a creative bone in his body and [he] has to always build things from the instructions. ... He's an 'instructions worker.' In the LEGO city, they build buildings, and it turns out in this universe it's illegal to build apart from the instructions. So what he finds out is that he's actually [a] descendant from these like super creative Jedi-type people who are called 'Master Builders' and he has been charged with saving the universe from being frozen together by an evil bad guy, so over the course of the movie he has to unlearn all of that lame-o, uncreative stuff and learn how to build without all of the instructions in order to save the universe."
The LEGO Movie opens February 28, 2014.
UPDATE, Aug. 28: Warner Bros. officially announced the voice casting and plot for the LEGO film in a press release today:
"The film, the first-ever full length theatrical LEGO movie, follows Emmet, an ordinary, rules-following, perfectly average LEGO minifigure who is mistakenly identified as the most extraordinary person and the key to saving the world. He is drafted into a fellowship of strangers on an epic quest to stop an evil tyrant, a journey for which Emmet is hopelessly and hilariously underprepared.
Chris Pratt stars as Emmet. Oscar winner Morgan Freeman and Elizabeth Banks will star as two of Emmet's fellow travelers: Vitruvius, an old mystic; and tough-as-nails Lucy, who mistakes Emmet for the savior of the world and guides him on his quest. She also calls upon the mysterious Batman, a LEGO minifigure voiced by Will Arnett, with whom she shares a history."
Deadline reports that both Freeman and The Hunger Games' Elizabeth Banks have been added to the voice cast of Warners' animated LEGO Movie. They join Chris Pratt and Will Arnett, who play the movie's protagonist and a LEGO version of Batman, respectively.
No word on Banks' role, but Freeman's character is said to be named "Vitruvius," which also just so happens to be the name of an ancient Roman author of a multi-volume work on architecture (a fitting subject for LEGO).
The movie will be directed by 21 Jump Street's Phil Lord and Chris Miller. Lord recently described the film as the story of "a young man who doesn't have a creative bone in his body and [he] has to always build things from the instructions. ... He's an 'instructions worker.' In the LEGO city, they build buildings, and it turns out in this universe it's illegal to build apart from the instructions. So what he finds out is that he's actually [a] descendant from these like super creative Jedi-type people who are called 'Master Builders' and he has been charged with saving the universe from being frozen together by an evil bad guy, so over the course of the movie he has to unlearn all of that lame-o, uncreative stuff and learn how to build without all of the instructions in order to save the universe."
The LEGO Movie opens February 28, 2014.
UPDATE, Aug. 28: Warner Bros. officially announced the voice casting and plot for the LEGO film in a press release today:
"The film, the first-ever full length theatrical LEGO movie, follows Emmet, an ordinary, rules-following, perfectly average LEGO minifigure who is mistakenly identified as the most extraordinary person and the key to saving the world. He is drafted into a fellowship of strangers on an epic quest to stop an evil tyrant, a journey for which Emmet is hopelessly and hilariously underprepared.
Chris Pratt stars as Emmet. Oscar winner Morgan Freeman and Elizabeth Banks will star as two of Emmet's fellow travelers: Vitruvius, an old mystic; and tough-as-nails Lucy, who mistakes Emmet for the savior of the world and guides him on his quest. She also calls upon the mysterious Batman, a LEGO minifigure voiced by Will Arnett, with whom she shares a history."
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