The Lego Movie (A Proof of Concept)

The Lego Movie is a 2014 computer-animated comedy film written and directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller from a story by Lord, Miller, and Dan and Kevin Hageman. Based on the Lego line of construction toys, the film was conceived by a yet-to-be-identified director as early as 1995 with the success of Disney's Toy Story. Originally, although it was CGI like the final version of the film, the film was gonna have a much darker and religious tone, with little to no comedy aspect nor no hip-hop or rock music whatsoever, the film originally was going to have music similar to the ones featured in DreamWorks' The Prince of Egypt. However, with Phil Lord and Christopher Miller joining the production in December 27th, 2002, they were shocked and horrified at the production, claiming the film in this direction would traumatize children and no longer want to buy lego stuff, so on February of 2003 both Phil Lord and Christopher Miller fired the unidentified director and both became directors themselves and restarted the production in 2006, resulting in the development hell, to make it more family friendly and made it a buddy comedy film we all come to love.
==Differences from the final film==
*The film was going to have little to no comedy in it, taking on a more serious adventure. There also wasn't going to be any hip-hop, pop, or rock music in this version of the movie.
*There originally wasn't going to be any of the DC characters (not even Batman), TMNT, or other characters that weren't original to the Lego series.
*Emmet was originally designed to be a late teenager with an orange hoodie, a brown belt, a pair of red bracelets on each of his wrists, and blue pants. He originally had long, brown hair similarly to many male teenagers at the time of the film's production, and he was to have a white in each of his eyes like many other Lego minifigures.
**Emmet was originally going to be a prophet, being able to tell the future, and was compared with Noah from the Bible, foreseeing the coming of the Special, the micromanagers (which were simply called robots at the time of the production) invasion, struggling to guide a crowd of other Lego characters to safety.
*Wildsyle/Lucy was originally named Jessica and she was originally designed to resemble a late teenager instead of an adult. Jessica had a pink dress as opposed to a black coat and pants, and she had long, flowing hair that was blonde instead of a short, black hair of her final film's counterpart.
**Jessica had a more calm, kind-hearteness, and sweet personality than her counterpart from the final film version. She had a deep care and love for Emmet at first sight, similarly to many princesses in Disney movies.
*Emmet in this version of the film had grandparents, Eddie Brickowski and Judith Brickowski, which were prototypes of Pa Cop and Ma Cop, Good/Bad Cop's parents.
*President/Lord Business was originally named Conor and he was just about the same as his counterpart from the final version, although less evil and more stubborn, similarly to Cain from the Bible, making him not the true villain.
*The original Lego robots (which are called micromanagers in the final version) were not made by Conor, but were a result of aliens, the yet-another scrapped characters of the movie, using them as an attempt to take over the Lego world.
**The robots were originally going to have a more intimidating and threatening appearances, voices, and behavior towards the heroes, being the main antagonists of the original version of The Lego Movie.
*In place of Batman, there was originally going to be an original character, Tyke Barlow, who resembled Gandalf in many ways, apart from lacking a hat or cape.
**Unlike Batman and just like about every character of the original version of the movie, Tyke lacked any comedy aspects.
*Vitruvius was designed without a beard or a hippy shirt, being more akin to Jesus than his final counterpart.
**Vitruvius was also gonna be more grouchy and serious, yet more caring and not blind, despite having glowing white eyes like the final version of Vitruvius.
*Unikitty was not planned to appear in the original version of this movie.
*Benny was mostly the same as his counterpart from the final film, except without any comedy aspects and had a white dot in each of his eyes, similarly to Emmet at the time.
*Metalbeard was nearly identical to his counterpart from the final movie version, but without any comedy aspect and he originally had a deeper voice to match his larger build.
*The story of the film was going to be based on the adventures depicted in the Bible, with some twists such as robots and aliens being present in a non-humor manner. This was partially inspired by the original production of Disney's Dinosaur, with Noah the Iguanodon (main protagonist), Adam the Lemur, and Cain the Iguanodon (main antagonist).
**To further proving this film being more religious is the fact that there was a giant realistic human hand reaching out to save Emmet from his doom, which would have been achieved using both CGI and a live actor's hand.
*The music were not going to be hip-hop, pop, nor rock, and instead, they were originally going to be composed by Stephen Schwartz, who also composed the music for Dreamworks' The Prince of Egypt.
==Concept Art==
The Lego Movie Original Emmet Design Concept Art.png|The original design for Emmet.
6EF2EFA3-B340-4B9A-BB32-D7792A51F59F.jpeg|The original design for Vitruvius.
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