{"id":653087,"date":"2026-06-23T00:18:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T00:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/653087\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T00:18:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T00:18:19","slug":"keanu-reeves-sets-lego-film-at-universal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/653087\/","title":{"rendered":"Keanu Reeves Sets LEGO Film At Universal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/keanu-reeves-sets-lego-film-at-universal.jpg\" data-caption=\"Apple TV\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/keanu-reeves-sets-lego-film-at-universal.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"keanu-reeves-sets-lego-film-at-universal\"\/><\/a>Apple TV<\/p>\n<p>Keanu Reeves is reportedly circling the main role in a new LEGO movie at Universal Pictures.<\/p>\n<p>Filmmaker Josh Cooley will helm the project, reuniting with Reeves after the pair worked together on \u201cToy Story 4\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The project will reportedly be a \u201clive-action\/CG hybrid\u201d feature, and it\u2019s not clear if Reeves will appear on screen or simply voice a character.<\/p>\n<p>Other cast members, story details or other key hires are also under wraps.<\/p>\n<p>Universal acquired the film rights to Lego in 2020, but several live-action projects have stalled in development, and the studio needs to commission a movie in the next six months or lose its rights to the property.<\/p>\n<p>Phil Lord and Chris Miller\u2019s \u201cThe Lego Movie\u201d was a smash at Warner Bros. Pictures, and its follow-up, \u201cThe Lego Batman Movie,\u201d was another hit. Two further films fizzled, and Warners let the rights expire.<\/p>\n<p>Universal\u2019s first collaboration with LEGO was the Pharrell Williams biopic \u201cPiece by Piece,\u201d which was a disaster, grossing just $10 million.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/film\/news\/keanu-reeves-lego-movie-toy-story-4-director-josh-cooley-1236787428\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Variety<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Previous article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/predator-director-sets-freddy-the-13th-film\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cPredator\u201d Director Sets \u201cFreddy the 13th\u201d Film<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apple TV Keanu Reeves is reportedly circling the main role in a new LEGO movie at Universal Pictures.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":653088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[94966,6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-653087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-bigslider","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}