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Warner Bros. has reshuffled the release date for the Lego movie three weeks earlier, moving it to February 7, 2014.

Morgan Freeman and Elizabeth Banks have joined the voice cast of Lego: The Piece of Resistance.

Freeman's character is named Vitruvius while Banks' yellow persona is unknown.

Warner Bros. has announced that their untitled Lego movie will be released in North America on February 28, 2014. Currently, no other movie has circled that same day for their own premiere.

Phil Lord and Chris Miller, the directors of Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, are in final contract talks with Warner Bros. to helm the big screen Lego movie. As reported by THR, the duo convinced the executives at the Lego company and WB top management that they were the right guys to tackle the brick movie with a presentation of their idea for the movie's story, which will include both live-action material as well as animation.

The plan is for Miller and Lord to make the 21 Jumpstreet movie first before moving on with the Lego movie, so we're at least a couple of years away from seeing any brick-building on the big screen.

After many years of carefully considering which Hollywood studio should help conceive a Lego movie, the Lego Group has partnered with Warner Bros. on a live-action film with animated Lego characters. Developing the project are Dan Lin (throug his Lin Pictures banner) and Roy Lee (of Vertigo Entertainment) with screenwriters Dan and Kevin Hageman working on the story. Details on the story are being guarded but Variety claims that it's an action-adventure premise presented in a family comedy format set in a Lego world. The film's producers and screenwriters have been secretly meeting with Lego executives in Denmark for a year working on the film's story. [Full story]