Sony WILL Animate SPIDER-MAN With ‘Lego’ Filmmakers

Tom Rothman came out swinging at CinemaCon. He announced in Vegas that Lego Movie helmers Phil Lord & Christopher Miller will make an animated feature of Spider-Man. They’ll conceive with an eye to direct it.

We knew that the animated film was in the works, and that Denzel Washington and Antoine Fuqua planned to do a sequel to their 2014 film The Equalizer. Rothman formalized that, too.

It doesn’t impede the progress of a new line of Spidey live-action films in the works, these with Marvel chief Kevin Feige in a producing capacity. The animated film will be released July 20, 2018. The live-action sequel will be released July 28, 2017.

Source: Deadline

Phil Lord And Christopher Miller To Write THE FLASH Movie

Phil Lord and Christopher Miller are working behind the scenes to develop a story for Warner Bros.’ big-screen version of the DC Comic-based superhero The Flash. They are currently working on a treatment for the studio about the superhero, whose super speed allows him to seemingly break the speed of light and time travel. The character, whose origins began in 1940, have been part of the Justice League at DC Comics and has been given small-screen and feature treatments before, but with Lord and Miller on the case, The Flash will take on a totally different dimension.

Whether they decide to direct is still up in the air. They have not, as yet, chosen their next project. Together they have directed some of the most successful movies at the box office, including Warner Bros.’ animated monster The Lego Movie which was as much as a creative hit as it was at the box office. That one grossed $468.7M worldwide and spawned a spinoff and sequel, which Lord and Miller are both involved with. Specifically, The Lego Batman Movie and The Lego sequel.

The duo also directed Sony’s 21 Jump Street and 22 Jump Street franchise and wrote and produced the 2009 animated Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs (1 and 2) for Columbia Pictures.

Source: Deadline

Chris Miller on 23 Jump Street/MIB Crossover

Perhaps the most intriguing bit of information that came out of the leaked Sony emails was that there was talk of a crossover film with Men In Black and Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s Jump Street franchise.

Coming Soon interviewed Chris Miller, asking if it was time to have a crossover film like the ones we used to have in the past, like Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein or Alien vs. Predator. “Well, it’s very, very early on in this crazy fever pitch, but it’s definitely a really interesting concept that makes you think,” Miller told them. “Talking about it, developing it with Jonah and Channing and Rodney and the studio, we can’t just do the, “Hey, it’s the same thing again” schtick because we did that already.”

Then they brought up the hilarious 20 fake-sequels that were shown at the end of 22 Jump Street. “Those are canon, all 22 sequels,” Miller stated. “If we’re going to do something, it’s got to be different but still have that same very specific Jump Street flavor to it.”

Source: ComingSoon