'The Lego Movie 2' Plot Spoilers - Phil Lord And Chris Miller Talk 'Ninjago' & 'Batman' Spin-Offs: 2018 Sequel Set 4 Years Into Film's Future

While we have plenty of time before we see the highly anticipated sequel to The Lego Movie in 2017, directors Chris Miller and Phil Lord this week opened up about the upcoming films they're working on. In fact, the filmmakers revealed that the four years between films won't be wasted because the new plot takes place with that amount of time gone past! That works out quite well, don't you think? Well what about the spin-off projects about Ninjago and Will Arnett's Lego Batman? Keep reading to find out more!

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"I don't want to give you spoilers but we were really interested in what happens to that boy who's in the meta story in the first movie when he's four years older," Miller said in a new feature interview with Empire. "When he's an adolescent how does that change his point of view? And it's nice to have the characters start in a different place from the first movie. Emmet, for example, was in an existential crisis of having seen another dimension and was questioning the whole point of his existence."

The filmmaking team also revealed that they're not sure who will direct Lego Movie 2, but they'll definite be involved.

"[Chris] McKay and Jared [Stern] and Michelle [Morgan] all worked on the movie a bit in our absence and really cracked the beginnings of a story and got us really excited; excited enough to write it," lord explained. "We should be writing right now."

Miller added: "We're writing the sequel right now and obviously producing all the other ones. There's a challenge to make each one feel like its own thing. Part of the fun is finding people like Charlie [Bean], who's doing the Ninjago movie, and Chris McKay who did so much on the first film. Each of them have their own distinct voices and ideas for tone. So it will each have its own personality and not just be, 'Hey, remember that last movie? Here's another one just like it!" So that's been a big challenge but so far it's been going better than I expected."

Lego Batman hits theaters February 10, 2017, and Ninjago will open on October 14, 2016. Let us know what you think of this news in the comments section below!