Today's Double News: rebuilding the Addams Family, with Lego

Two more little bits of news posted by me on MS:

http://www.moviescene.nl/p/151330/addams_family_film_in_de_planning

http://www.moviescene.nl/p/151331/nieuwe_trailer_the_lego_movie

So the Addams Family is brought back to life once more? Figures. It proved a success in the past on multiple occasions, so Hollywood is convinced it can do so again. Even though we already had a very similarly themed movie in last year's Dark Shadows, which didn't turn out so well. So at least there is room for a macabre family done right. Animated though? It wouldn't be the first time this creepy family unit has been featured in animation, so it's not necessarily a bad idea, even though most people will still consider a live-action version, whether it's the classic TV-series or the Nineties' films, first and foremost when they hear the (in)famous theme song. At least a writer is involved who knows her way around eerie,Gothic, digitally animated movies (though they're hit and miss in terms of quality in her case, so this could swing either way). Let's wait and see whether MGM actually manages to acquire the rights to this franchise and starts casting before we start judging this project too much in advance. Which also hides the fact that I've hardly ever seen any Addams Family in my lifetime. I guess I either missed it as a kid (it was probably on cable telly), or I just discarded it as 'not my thing' and I can't remember anything else about it.

Speaking of animation and stuff that is my thing, a stop motion Lego movie surely qualifies as such. And so The Lego Movie gets a second trailer, an official one this time as opposed to a mere teaser (see below). I must say, the teaser was able to whet my appettite more thoroughly. I start to wonder whether watching talking, moving Lego minifigures for ninety minutes or more is something that doesn't get dull after a while. YouTube shorts is one thing (or thousands upon thousands, really) but a full length film is quite another. At least there's a decent voice cast (though a bit heavy on the comedy stars maybe): who would ever have thought the likes of Morgan Freeman and Liam Neeson would voice characters like these? And what's up with all the DC superheroes? Getting the Justice League on the big screen sooner than expected it appears, just not the way we were meant to think it would pan out (but hey, no Batfleck here!). Too bad there's no Marvel heroes too to balance things a little neatly, after all there's plenty of Marvel themed Lego sets as well. I guess Marvel is too busy making "real" movies instead of playing with toys and dreaming of bigger things.