In
Warner Bros. Pictures' new 3D, animated comedy “The LEGO Movie,” the world is
due for a disastrous end if not for one accidental hero: Emmet.
A
construction worker and self-described nobody, Emmet adheres to the rules in
every aspect of his life, content in the belief that he is the most ordinary,
unremarkable person ever, until a crisis of monumental proportions reveals a
surprisingly extraordinary side of him he never knew.
Providing
the voice of Emmet is rising star Chris Pratt (“Delivery Man,” “Moneyball”) who
will soon be seen in the Marvel feature “Guardians of the Galaxy,” in which he
plays Star-Lord.
“On
day one, we talked about our experiences building something out of LEGO bricks
and the frustration we’d sometimes feel when we couldn’t find a specific piece
right away. That feeling encapsulates who Emmet is to us,” says Dan Hageman,
who, with writing partner and brother Kevin Hageman worked on the story with
screenwriters Phil Lord and Christopher Miller. “He thinks his happiness is tied
to following the instructions yet the fate of the world will rely on him
discovering his own creativity,” adds Kevin.
Pratt
says, “This challenge takes him through LEGO realms he didn’t know existed,
where everything is just ridiculous but in a good way. It’s all beautiful,
imaginative, exciting and very funny. There are loveable characters, amazing
sets, insane action, a lot of love and a really positive message that you can
feel comfortable bringing your kids to see.”
Emmet
never met an instruction manual he didn’t like. Whatever the rules are, he’s
glad to follow; whatever song is playing on the radio, he’ll sing along;
whatever everyone else has for lunch or watches on TV, well, he’s cool with
that. He even consults a book to remind him to shower and put on his pants (in
that order) every morning before joining the Bricksburg citizenry on their
orderly commute to work.
“We
wanted someone with incredible comedy chops as our lead, but someone who can
also be sweet and endearing, and embody this ‘regular guy’ spirit. Chris Pratt
was our first choice; right out of the box,” says Lord.
Each
day on the construction crew, Emmet happily razes any buildings deemed “weird”
and replaces them with ones that look exactly like all the others, on orders
from President Business. Says Pratt, “The city of Bricksburg is this big sprawl
where everything looks the same and it’s all pre-fab modular homes, and any
areas that have any flavor are being destroyed. So it’s being built as a kind
of homogenous, utopian model, though you quickly sense there’s some underlying
darkness here; something is controlling the people of Bricksburg.”
But
life as he knows it is about to change when Emmet accidentally veers off the
path at his site, falls headlong into a freshly excavated pit, and meets the
trespassing Wyldstyle: the most beautiful and exciting woman he has ever seen.
From her graffiti-splashed black hoodie to the turquoise and hot-pink streaks
in her hair, to her take-charge attitude, there’s clearly nothing ordinary
about this woman.
When
Wyldstyle encounters Emmet at the construction site, she is there searching for
the one thing that can block Lord Business’s terrible plan, according to
prophecy: The Piece of Resistance. So when that vital piece turns up
inexplicably fused to Emmet’s back, like it or not, the guy whose only ambition
in life is to fit in suddenly becomes The Special, the most important person in
the universe. And the most hunted. Before he knows what’s happening, Emmet is
careening at high speed through the Bricksburg cityscape with Lord Business’s
robot assassins in fierce pursuit.
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