{"id":1517469,"date":"2026-06-22T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?guid=4f1627473c7dffe25e6fe2d29b6625ea"},"modified":"2026-06-22T14:14:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T19:14:04","slug":"keanu-reeves-in-talks-to-star-in-lego-live-action-animation-hybrid-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1517469","title":{"rendered":"Keanu Reeves in talks to star in Lego live-action, animation hybrid movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/06\/fa35852683ac63c9e8a0f7e4eff07126.png\" alt\/><figcaption>Keanu Reeves attends the 78th annual Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall on June 8, 2025, in New York City. (Michael Loccisano\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure><p>Keanu Reeves is looking to enter the world of Lego.<\/p><p>The actor is in negotiations to star in a live-action and animation hybrid Lego film, ABC Audio has learned. His <em>Toy Story 4<\/em> director Josh Cooley will direct him in this new film for Universal Pictures based on the popular toy franchise.<\/p><p>Universal Pictures had no comment when reached by ABC Audio.<\/p><p>While plot details are being kept under blocks, the film is said to combine animation and live-action. Jill Wilfert and Ryan Christians are set to produce it through The Lego Group.<\/p><p>Universal landed the rights to Lego in 2020. Several Lego films, including 2014's <em>The Lego Movie<\/em> and 2017's <em>The Lego Batman Movie<\/em>, were released through Warner Bros. Pictures and remain part of that studio's library.<\/p><p>Reeves voices the <em>Toy Story<\/em> character Duke Caboom, who first appeared in Cooley's 2019 sequel <em>Toy Story 4<\/em>. The actor reprised the role in the franchise's fifth film, which is currently in theaters after its June 19 debut.<\/p><p>Copyright \u00a9 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keanu Reeves attends the 78th annual Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall on June 8, 2025, in New York City. (Michael Loccisano\/Getty Images)Keanu Reeves is looking to enter the world of Lego.The actor is in negotiations to star in a live-action and an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1919,"featured_media":1517472,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/06\/fa35852683ac63c9e8a0f7e4eff07126.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1451],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1517469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abc-entertainment-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-24 16:22:46","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/06\/fa35852683ac63c9e8a0f7e4eff07126.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1919"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1517469"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1517473,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517469\/revisions\/1517473"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1517472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1517469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1517469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1517469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}