Keanu Reeves Reportedly in Talks to Star in New LEGO Movie Project from Toy Story 4 Director

Keanu Reeves is successful negotiations to prima successful a caller LEGO movie from Toy Story 4 manager Josh Cooley, reports Deadline. According to Deadline’s sources, the movie would beryllium a hybrid of animation and unrecorded action.

For its part, Universal has not commented connected the topic.

Universal picked up the rights “to develop, produce, and administer theatrical releases based connected [LEGO] intelligence spot and archetypal ideas” mode backmost successful 2020 but, truthful far, thing has eventuated from the deal. Back successful precocious 2024 it was reported a trio of projects were successful the tube astatine the studio, but determination remains thing to amusement for it connected the large screen.

LEGO antecedently partnered with Warner Bros. for its big-ticket films. The 2 archetypal LEGO Movies, positive The LEGO Batman Movie and The LEGO Ninjago Movie, each stay a portion of the WB library.

Should a woody beryllium struck, the task would correspond a reteaming for Reeves and Cooley, since Reeves featured successful Toy Story 4 arsenic the quality Duke Caboom.

Reeves precocious reprised his relation arsenic Duke Caboom successful the recently released Toy Story 5, which has galloped to a immense $312 cardinal planetary container bureau haul. It makes Toy Story 5 the biggest opening play of 2026, and the biggest opening play successful franchise past (not adjusted for inflation).

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