The LEGO Movie 2 to be set four years later

This article contains a spoiler for the ending of The LEGO Movie.

We're expecting no shortage of awards love for Chris Miller and Phil Lord's tremendous The LEGO Movie, which remains one of the most genuine surprises of 2014 at the movies. It also ended the year as the top grossing film at the UK box office.

Chatting to Empire, Miller and Lord have been talking about The LEGO Movie 2, a film that they're going to be writing, but won't be directing this time around. When quizzed as to which direction the new film would take, Miller said that "well I don’t want to give you spoilers but we were really interested in what happens to that boy who’s in the meta story in the first movie when he’s four years older. When he’s an adolescent how does that change his point of view?"

Miller added that "it’s nice to have the characters start in a different place from the first movie. Emmet, for example, was in an existential crisis of having seen another dimension and was questioning the whole point of his existence."

He also noted that "there are some really fun new themes that we didn’t explore in the first movie and got us really excited, so that it’s its own thing. With 22 Jump Street we did the whole making fun of yourself for just doing the same thing again. We can’t do that ever again. You can only go so far up your own rear end."

The LEGO Movie 2is currently set for release in 2018. And you can read the full piece with Empire right here.