

“You want to find a way to take what we know about Batman and tell new stories, so that people aren’t bored and don’t think, ‘We’ve seen that already.’ There’s always talk about further films, but it depends whether there’s an appetite for it and how people respond to this movie. “At this point, I don’t want to rest on my laurels,” he says. With Arnett and co clearly having a good time making the film, and the fact that it has already had a decent opening at the box office, can we assume that he might edge out in front of his big-screen Bat-compatriots with a fourth adventure as the Dark Knight? They were very open to it – just trying to make the funniest version of the scene that we could.” “I would go into 20, 30, 40-minute rants in the booth, riffing on whatever would come to mind, really just to make them laugh.

“They don’t write a script and say, ‘OK, let’s just make that” – they don’t animate until after you’ve recorded, so it’s just really about what works in the moment,” Arnett explains.
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The fact that Batman’s password for the Batcave is ‘Iron Man sucks’, for example…It’s a real testament to the goodwill out there.Ī lot of the film’s gags were cooked up in the recording booth – with the actors actively encouraged by director Mike Mitchell and writer/producers Phil Lord and Chris Miller to improvise. I guess it’s a little bit of breaking the fourth wall. We’re not taking ourselves too seriously. “One of the hallmarks of these movies is that there are a lot of pop culture references, which lets the air out of it a little bit.

“The jokes are always good-natured,” Arnett says.
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Of course, this being a LEGO film, it’s not just the Bat-movies that are the butt of the film’s jokes – like the first movie and The LEGO Batman Movie, there are a few friendly digs at DC’s big-screen rivals, Marvel, too. Because it’s basically a rap, the timing and everything on that was so different from any voice work I’d done before, so it was it was a bit of a learning process for me. “It’s not something that people are clamoring to do, to hear me sing. “You know, I’m not I’m not known as a singer,” Arnett laughs. Entitled Gotham City Guys, the song features Batman extolling the virtues of his cinematic predecessors, in which he raps – yes, raps – that Gotham bachelors are “Affleck-level hot” with “George Clooney-level charm and Val Kilmer lips”. In fact, one of The LEGO Movie 2’s stand-out scenes is Batman’s musical duet with love interest Queen Watevra Wa’Nabi (Tiffany Haddish). And I’d love to see somebody return to that.” He’s such a brilliant actor, and he did have this kind of playful quality to him.

“The one that I grew up with – the first one that we all saw in the cinematic universe – was Michael Keaton. Even Clooney’s Batman is underestimated – there’s a whimsical element to it that I quite like. There were parts about it that I thought were really fantastic. “And I think they’ve all been interesting. Talking of opinions, who is Arnett’s favourite Dark Knight? “I’ve really enjoyed all the cinematic Batmen for different reasons,” he says.
