{"id":753829,"date":"2026-06-22T23:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T23:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/753829\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T23:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T23:08:08","slug":"keanu-reeves-in-talks-to-join-lego-hybrid-movie-at-universal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/753829\/","title":{"rendered":"Keanu Reeves in Talks to Join Lego Hybrid Movie At Universal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/keanu-reeves\/\" id=\"auto-tag_keanu-reeves_1\" data-tag=\"keanu-reeves\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Keanu Reeves<\/a> is looking to reteam with director Josh Cooley on the new live-action hybrid <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/lego\/\" id=\"auto-tag_lego_1\" data-tag=\"lego\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lego<\/a> movie at Universal, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe role follows Reeves voicing Duke Ka-Boom in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/toy-story-4\/\" id=\"auto-tag_toy-story-4_1\" data-tag=\"toy-story-4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toy Story 4<\/a>, which Cooley also directed. Reeves is angling towards another toy franchise-inspired movie, this time to be produced by Jill Wilfert and Ryan Christians for Universal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tPlot details for the new Lego movie are not available, with Reeves understood to be in negotiations for the role in the hybrid film. The Hollywood star is also set to lend his voice to the title role of\u00a0Hidari, a Japanese stop-motion action feature in development from director Masashi Kawamura.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe feature, unveiled at Cannes, is an expansion of Kawamura\u2019s viral 2023 proof-of-concept short of the same name, which has racked up close to 5 million views on YouTube since its release.\u00a0Reeves also voiced the character Shadow the Hedgehog in\u00a0Sonic the Hedgehog 3\u00a0(2024).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe original Lego 3D animated movie saw directors-screenwriters Phil Lord and Christopher Miller bring the building bricks to life with a voice cast that includes Chris Pratt, Will Ferrell, Elizabeth Banks, Will Arnett, Liam Neeson and Morgan Freeman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tReeves, who remains in demand as a tentpole actor, also recently appeared in the movies\u00a0Ballerina, Lionsgate\u2019s\u00a0John Wick\u00a0spinoff, and\u00a0Good Fortune, the Aziz Ansari-directed comedy also made by Lionsgate. He was also in the running to board Shiver, a sci-fi package that had Deadpool\u00a0helmer Tim Miller attached to direct.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tUniversal Pictures had no comment on Reeves possibly joining the new Lego movie. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Keanu Reeves is looking to reteam with director Josh Cooley on the new live-action hybrid Lego movie at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134,17550,32620,171344],"class_list":["post-753829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-keanu-reeves","tag-lego","tag-toy-story-4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=753829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}