With no available plot details or synopsis for Billion Brick Race, it remained unclear just how the spinoff would fit into the existing LEGO franchise universe. Guttierez’s involvement was intriguing, given The Book of Life‘s critical success (even if it was perceived to have been a box office failure).
The studio aimed at further expanding the franchise universe with Billion Brick Race, with a script from Jason Segel (The Muppets) and Iron Man 3 scribe Drew Pearce.
The Book of Life director Jorge R. Guttierez has exited the Warner Bros. LEGO spinoff Billion Brick Race.
WB’s once-farfetched idea of creating a viable animated movie franchise based on its LEGO toy property has resulted in the critical and box office successes of The LEGO Movie and The LEGO Batman Movie, along with the relatively underwhelming The LEGO Ninjago Movie.